Categories: Paintings | State Rooms | The Ante-Chapel, Chapel & Lobby |

The Virgin appearing to St. Filippo Neri, Roman School, circa 1700.

Oil on metal, 26.5cm by 18.5cm.

Filippo di Neri (1515-1595) was an Italian priest who founded a society of secular clergy called the Congregation of the Oratory.

He was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.

REFERENCE: PIC009