This is the partner church to Santa Maria in Montesanto, also designed by Carlo Rainaldi. The story goes that a woman accidentally dropped her baby in the Tiber, and then prayed to an image of the Madonna in a riverside shrine. When he was rescued, a chapel by the river was built to house the 'miraculous' image, and later this church was commissioned to house it in a safer place.

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