Jesus' Presentation at the Temple
It stages the scene of the presentation of Jesus at the temple, forty days after his birth , and his circumcision, according to Jewish tradition.
The splayed portal and the elliptical marble staircase of the atrium, reproduce those that go down from the upper church to the lower church, in Bethlehem, in the Holy Land.
The decoration of the small chapel represents a temple, with fake marble panels, and eight painted male and female characters, who are witnessing the ceremony.
Both the terracotta statues and the frescoes, are by Gaudenzio Ferrari. He made them by 1513, as they were already mentioned in a guide to the Sacro Monte in 1514.
The round wooden table, added in 1847, was made by the workshop Barolo of Varallo, under the guidance of Giovanni Longhetti.