The oratory of the Madonnina di S. Paolo would have been erected between the ne of the 15th and early 16th centuries, incorporating an older image of Our Lady of Milk painted on a section on the city walls.
With the shift of the plebian seat from Galliano to St. Paul’s at the end of the 16th century, the baptismal font no to 1717 found its place in the oratory; at the turn of the 1960s, after necessary restoration, it was again used as a baptistery.
The interior is richly decorated: at the center of the seven-sided apse stands the venerated image of Our Lady of Milk (14th cent.), flanked by four Angels (behind which views of ancient Cantù have been recognized) and, at the ends, the Good Thief (left) and St. Nicholas of Tolentino (right).
On the walls are episodes from the Life of the Blessed Virgin and the Infancy of Jesus, by Giovanni Ambrogio da Vigevano and Cristoforo Motti (1514).
