Santa Maria dell'Ogninella, Catania

The present church was built by 1711, commissioned by a lay congregation of individuals with doctorates in law, medicine, or theology, as well as government officials and notaries, using designs attributed to Giovanni Battista Vaccarini.

Putatively the 1693 earthquake uncovered an ancient frescoed icon of the virgin near the no longer extant Porta San Orsola in the medieval walls, that was attributed to the Ongia church.

The Piazza is notable because the area was involved in the May 1860 skirmishes between rebels and the Napolitan army of the Bourbon King Francis II of the Two Sicilies.

Later that day she again surprised advancing troops, creating a false discharge by fulminating some gunpowder near the mouth of the cannon.

When the troops advanced to capture what they considered to be a spent artillery piece, she discharged a volley at close range.