The sacred building is the work of Edoardo Collamarini (1864–1928), an artist of high culture and fine sensitivity. The sanctuary has been identified as the most beautiful Sacred Heart church erected in Italy, and certainly one of the most monumental sacred buildings erected at the time. On June 14.1901, Cardinal Domenico Swampa blessed and laid the first stone. On October 15.1912, Archbishop Giacomo della Chiesa, later Cardinal and Pope Benedict XV, consecrates and opens the majestic temple. The height of the Sanctuary from street level to the top of the cross is 67.→