Church of the Madonna della Difesa

The Church of the Madonna della Difesa is a Catholic church in the neighbourhood of Little Italy in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built by Italian immigrants to the city, specifically those from Molise, to commemorate the apparition of the Madonna in La Difesa, in Casacalenda, Molise. It was designed by Roch Montbriant and Italo-Canadian artist Guido Nincheri, the so-called "the Michelangelo of Montreal." It is Romanesque in style and laid out in a Greek-cross floorplan. It was inaugurated in 1919.