Our “Madonna della Neve” is one of the names by which the Catholic Church venerates Mary according to the so called worship of hyperdulia (addressed to the mother of Jesus).
Missing news on the first original construction of the church in Ravello, even if in the thirteenth century Goffredo da Bussero already mentions a Church of Santa Maria, probably situated in the hamlet, which at the time was composed of some villas.
In 1734 the ancient temple was restored, but at the end of the eighteenth century, the parish priest of Parabiago Don Agostino Peregalli, made a supplication to the Curia of Milan saying that the Church was "... Too cramped, damp and ruinous, anymore susceptible to restorations ... "and at the same time very small, not able to contain even half of the approximately 130 residents in Ravello Cassina, the name of the village at that time.
So on 4th January 1794, is contracted out to Paolo Lamperti, master builder, teacher Carlo Lamperti and maestro Giovanni Colombo Bongino, the building of the church, designed by the great cabinet-maker Giuseppe Maggiolini of Parabiago. The building lasted about a year and a half and the new church was blessed and consecrated by the priest Peregalli on 1st August 1795.
The anonymous fresco of 1795, situated in a elliptical niche above the altar, representing Madonna della Neve with Jesus, Saint Rocco and Saint Lucia; in the same year some canvases were donated to the church. including the still existing Crucifixion and Deposition.

Still to remember a tablet depicting the Virgin Mary, Saint Rocco and Saint Lucia in the foreground and on the bottom of the countryside around Ravello with animals and peasants in adoration, under it the inscription "Thanks to the grace of the Blessed Virgin was preserved from the Cassina cattle in the years 1746-47 ".