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The sides are decorated with plasters, paintings and valuable wall paintings. A beveled octagon with six really big rose marble columns hold the nave. Walking along the nave in the third chapel on our left,  we can admire the Saint Antony Abbot chapel. In this chapel there is a painting of the brothers Lampugnani, dated 1644, that represent a procession lead by the archbishop and some others authorities. This procession remind us the one that until 1586, started from Milan to celebrate the apparition of the Saint Ambrogio in the battle of Parabiago.  Let's go now toward the presbytery (the central part of the church that includes the altar in front of the apse with the choir and the balustrade). After the demolition of the old presbytery and of the choir, in 1939 the church became Latin cross-shaped with a wide transept and two platform beside the altar. On the arcade of the two platform are placed two paintings from the eighteenth-century. This buildings are both of the Lampugnani brothers and represent the  adoration of the three wise men and the escape from Egypt. On the sides of the transept,  delimited by rose marble column, we can admire the big paintings of the eighteenth-century painter  Vincenzo Campi, portraying the flagellation and the thorn crowning. 

Now let's have a look at the altar, made of  baroque wood  by an anonymous  sculptor, it's six meter long and with 3 floors. In the first one it's represented the Emmaus' Supper that remind us the Eucharist . In the second one we can see the Virgin' Glorification, and in the last one there's the Resurrection of Christ. In the upper part, like a crown there are little spiral column with interwoven ivy and statues representing Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors and Virgins. Unfortunately we cannot know the artist that had thought about it, neither the maker. Walking along the nave, at the half part of the right aisle we must notice the Chapel of the Holy Family, in which are present the wall painting of the Saint Patron Gervaso and Protaso. This two characters, tells the legend, could be twins. At the death of the parents, they sold the property and released all the slaves, to shouted themselves away in a hovel where they had been praying for ten years. A man called Astasio tried to convert them, cause he wanted the benediction of the Gods in occasion of a military campaign against the Marcomairanni Barbarian. He was no successful and as a revenge, he killed the two brothers. Grevaso died flagellated while Protaso  was beheaded with a stroke of ax. Nowadays we are only sure about the retrieval of the bodies thanks to Saint Ambrogio.  At the end of this aisle we can admire the fabulous organ Carrera built in 1841 by Girolamo Carrera.

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