Our Lady of Graces or St Mary of Graces (Italian: Santa Maria delle Grazie) is a devotion to the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

. Churches with this dedication often owe their foundation to thankfulness for graces received from the Virgin Mary, and are particularly numerous in Italy, India, Australia, United States, France and the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.
"Our Lady of Graces" is the patron saint of the diocese of Faenza

Faenza

Faenza is an Italian city and comune, in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated 50 km southeast of Bologna.Faenza is noted for its manufacture of majolica ware glazed earthenware pottery, known from the name of the town as "faience"....

, as well as this incomplete list of Italian towns:

• Cautano
  Cautano
  Cautano is a comune constituted from two countries, Cautano and Cacciano, in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 75 km northeast of Naples and about 13 km west of Benevento and about 13 km north of Montesarchio....
  
  
• Decimoputzu
  Decimoputzu
  Decimoputzu is a comune of c. 4,000 inhabitants in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 20 km northwest of Cagliari....
  
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• Nettuno
  Nettuno
  Nettuno is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy, 60 kilometers south of Rome. It is named in honour of the Roman god Neptune...
  
   (where Nostra Signora delle Grazie e Santa Maria Goretti is part-dedicated to her)
• Ricadi
  Ricadi
  Ricadi is a small rural town, as well as a municipality, located along the Tyrrhenian coast, in the province of Vibo Valentia), in the Italian region of Calabria.-Boundaries:...
  
  
• Sanluri
  Sanluri
  Sanluri is the capital town of the province of Medio Campidano, Sardinia, Italy....
  
  
• Toritto
  Toritto
  Toritto is a town and comune in the province of Bari, Puglia, Italy.It lies in an agricultural area, with cultivation of mainly almond and olive trees.-History:...
  
  

• Acquaviva Platani
  Acquaviva Platani
  Acquaviva Platani is a hill town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta.The name of the town is derived from the numerous natural springs in the area. Until 1862, the town was called simply Acquaviva; the appositive Platani was added to distinguish it from the other three Italian towns named...
  
  
• Alanno
  Alanno
  thumb|left|220px|View of Alanno.Alanno is a comune and town in the province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of Italy.The first settlement of Alanno dates probably from the Lombard domination...
  
  , Abruzzo
  Abruzzo
  Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lying less than due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east...
  
   : A renaissance church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, built around 1485 to venerate a miraculous apparition of the Madonna.
• Alife
  Alife (CE)
  Alife is a town and comune in the province of Caserta , Italy. It is located in the Volturno valley, and is a flourishing center of agricultural production.-Ancient history:...
  
  
• Anghiari
  Anghiari
  -History:Anghiari is famous for the Battle of Anghiari between Florence and Milan which took place there on June 29, 1440. The battle inspired a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio by Leonardo da Vinci...
  
  , Tuscany
  Tuscany
  Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
  
   : Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie o della Propositura, constructed 1628–1740.^,
• Anversa degli Abruzzi
  Anversa degli Abruzzi
  Anversa degli Abruzzi is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy-Points of interest:* Giardino Botanico Gole del Sagittario* Botanical Garden at the Sorgenti del Cavuto...
  
  
• Arezzo
  Arezzo
  Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....
  
  , Tuscany : A late Gothic church built close to the site of a well which had been associated with Paganism, and had been destroyed at the behest of Saint Bernardino of Siena
  Bernardino of Siena
  Saint Bernardino of Siena, O.F.M., was an Italian priest, Franciscan missionary, and is a Catholic saint.-Early life:...
  
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• Arzignano
  Arzignano
  Arzignano is an industrial town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is located c. 23 km from Vicenza, in the Valle del Chiampo.-History:...
  
  , Veneto
  Veneto
  Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...
  
   : The Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie, built after the plague of 1485.
• Bevagna
  Bevagna
  Bevagna is a town and comune in the central part of the Italian province of Perugia, , in the flood plain of the Topino river.Bevagna is 25 km SE of Perugia, 8 km west of Foligno, 7 km north-north-west of Montefalco, 16 km south of Assisi and 15 km north-west of Trevi.It...
  
  
• Brescia
  Brescia
  Brescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...
  
  , Lombardy
  Lombardy
  Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
  
   : Basilica of Madonna delle Grazie
• Capua
  Capua
  Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain. Ancient Capua was situated where Santa Maria Capua Vetere is now...
  
  
• Casale Monferrato
  Casale Monferrato
  Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...
  
  
• Castelfranco di Pietralunga
  Pietralunga
  Pietralunga is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about north of Perugia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,343 and an area of 140.2 km²....
  
  
• Castiglion Fiorentino
  Castiglion Fiorentino
  Castiglion Fiorentino is a small, walled city in eastern Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Arezzo, between the cities of Arezzo and Cortona. It is well known for its annual festivals and Etruscan archeological site.-Geography:...
  
  
• Castiglione d'Orcia
  Castiglione d'Orcia
  Castiglione d'Orcia is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about 90 km southeast of Florence and about 40 km southeast of Siena, in the Val d'Orcia, not far from the Via Cassia....
  
  
• Cerignola
  Cerignola
  Cerignola is a town and comune of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Foggia, 40 km southeast from the town of Foggia. It has the third-largest land area of any comune in Italy, at 593.71 km², after Rome and Ravenna.-History:...
  
  
• Città di Castello
  Città di Castello
  Città di Castello is a city and comune in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of the Umbria region of Italy. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain of the river Tiber. The city is north of Perugia and south of Cesena on the S3bis. It is connected to the A1...
  
  
• Colle Faggio di Monteleone di Spoleto
  Monteleone di Spoleto
  Monteleone di Spoleto , is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in southeast Umbria at 978 meters above sea-level overhanging the upper valley of the Corno River...
  
  
• Cortona
  Cortona
  Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic center of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.-History:...
  
  
• Fabro
  Fabro
  Fabro is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 40 km southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni....
  
  
• Faenza
  Faenza
  Faenza is an Italian city and comune, in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated 50 km southeast of Bologna.Faenza is noted for its manufacture of majolica ware glazed earthenware pottery, known from the name of the town as "faience"....
  
  
• Farnese, Lazio : The Clarissan monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
• Floridia
  Floridia
  Floridia is a town and comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily .-Geography:Floridia lies 12 km west of Syracuse...
  
  
• Foligno
  Foligno
  Foligno is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clitunno river system...
  
  
• Giano dell'Umbria
  Giano dell'Umbria
  Giano dell'Umbria is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 35 km southeast of Perugia...
  
  , Umbria
  Umbria
  Umbria is a region of modern central Italy. It is one of the smallest Italian regions and the only peninsular region that is landlocked.Its capital is Perugia.Assisi and Norcia are historical towns associated with St. Francis of Assisi, and St...
  
   : A small country church, medieval in origin, but restructured in the classical style.
• Grado
• Gravedona
• Gravina in Puglia
  Gravina in Puglia
  Gravina in Puglia is an Italian municipality in the Southern Italian Province of Bari, site along a river of the same name in the Western Murgia geographical area of Apulia.It is the seat of the Alta Murgia National Park....
  
  
• Imperia
• Livorno
  Livorno
  Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :...
  
  
• Magione
  Magione
  Magione is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 15 km west of Perugia.Magione borders the following municipalities: Castiglione del Lago, Corciano, Panicale, Passignano sul Trasimeno, Perugia, Tuoro sul Trasimeno, and Umbertide...
  
  
• Magliano Sabina
  Magliano Sabina
  Magliano Sabina is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 50 km north of Rome and about 30 km west of Rieti...
  
  
• Maiori
• Mantova
• Massa Lubrense
• Melilli
  Melilli
  Melilli is a comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily , located about 190 km southeast of Palermo and about 20 km northwest of Syracuse...
  
  
• Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
  , Lombardy : Santa Maria delle Grazie
  Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)
  Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, northern Italy, included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list...
  
  , site of the mural
  Mural
  A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.-History:Murals of...
  
   of the Last Supper
  The Last Supper (Leonardo)
  The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este...
  
   by Leonardo da Vinci
  Leonardo da Vinci
  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
  
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• Modugno
  Modugno
  Modugno is a town and comune located in southern Italy in the province of Bari, Puglia. At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 35,980 inhabitants and a land area of 31.90 km²...
  
  
• Montalcino
  Montalcino
  Montalcino is a hilltown and comune in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous for its Brunello di Montalcino wine.The town is located to the west of Pienza, close to the Crete Senesi in Val d'Orcia. It is 42 km from Siena, 110 km from Florence and 150 km from Pisa...
  
  
• Montefalco
  Montefalco
  Montefalco is a town and comune in the central part of the Italian province of Perugia, on an outcrop of the Colli Martani above the flood plain of the Clitunno river, 7 km SE of Bevagna, 11 km SW of Foligno, and 9 km NW of Trevi.-History:The town has been actively settled since...
  
  
• Montegabbione
  Montegabbione
  Montegabbione is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 35 km southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni...
  
  
• Montepescali
  Montepescali
  Montepescali is a small town in southern Tuscany, Italy, a frazione of the comune of Grosseto.The site, from which the scenic panorama of the coastal strip and the Tuscan Archipelago up to Corsica can be seen, is also known as "Terrace or balcony of the Maremma".-History:The town was built in the...
  
   di Grosseto
  Grosseto
  Grosseto is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river....
  
  
• Monteleone d'Orvieto
  Monteleone d'Orvieto
  Monteleone d'Orvieto is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 35 km southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni.-History:...
  
  
• Monterotondo
• Montevarchi
  Montevarchi
  Montevarchi is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.- History :The town of Montevarchi sprang up around 1100, near to a fortified Benedictine monastery founded by bishop Elempert of Arezzo. At first the castle belonged to the Marquess Bourbon del Monte di Santa Maria, then...
  
  
• Monticelli di Olevano sul Tusciano
  Olevano sul Tusciano
  Olevano sul Tusciano is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.- Civil Architectures :*Villa romana di S. Maria a Corte.*Castrum Olibani - Longobard castle.* Pope gardens in Salitto...
  
  
• Montone
  Montone
  Montone is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 35 km north of Perugia.Montone is a walled medieval village with a small industrial and housing estate surrounding the walled town center...
  
  
• Monza
  Monza
  Monza is a city and comune on the river Lambro, a tributary of the Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy some 15 km north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza. It is best known for its Grand Prix motor racing circuit, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.On June...
  
  
• Naples
  Naples
  Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
  
   (at least three)
• Parma
  Parma
  Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
  
  
• Paternò
  Paternò
  Paternò is a town and comune in the Province of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.-History:The site of Paternò was settled before 3500 BCE. Its inhabitants were probably the Sicani, although it was located in mainly Sicel territory; its initial name was Inessa. The modern name derives form the Greek...
  
  
• Perugia
  Perugia
  Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the River Tiber, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area....
  
  
• Piancastagnaio
  Piancastagnaio
  Piancastagnaio is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 110 km southeast of Florence and about 60 km southeast of Siena.It is located on the Monte Amiata slopes....
  
  
• Piazzetta Mondragone
• Pistoia
  Pistoia
  Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...
  
  
• Preggio di Umbertide
  Umbertide
  Umbertide is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northwestern Umbria, at the confluence of the Reggia river and the Tiber. It is 30 km North of Perugia and 20 km South of Città di Castello...
  
  
• Rome (at least three)
• San Giovanni d'Asso
  San Giovanni d'Asso
  San Giovanni d'Asso is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 80 km southeast of Florence and about 30 km southeast of Siena in the area known as the Crete Senesi....
  
  
• San Giovanni Rotondo
  San Giovanni Rotondo
  San Giovanni Rotondo is the name of a city and comune in the province of Foggia, Puglia region, southern Italy. As of 2006 it had a population of 26,442....
  
  
• Sansepolcro
  Sansepolcro
  Sansepolcro , is a town and comune in Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Arezzo.Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, Borgo was the birthplace of the painters Piero della Francesca, Raffaellino del Colle and Angiolo Tricca...
  
  
• San Severo
  San Severo
  San Severo is a city and comune of 55,486 inhabitants of the province of Foggia in the southern Italian region of Apulia....
  
  
• Sant'Anatolia di Narco
  Sant'Anatolia di Narco
  Sant'Anatolia di Narco is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km southeast of Perugia. It is a medieval town commanded by a 12th century castle, with a 14th century line of walls....
  
  
• Scandriglia
  Scandriglia
  Scandriglia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northeast of Rome and about 25 km south of Rieti....
  
  
• Scanno
• Scansano
  Scansano
  Scansano is a town and comune, of medieval origin, in the Tuscan province of Grosseto, Italy. The area which Scansano lies within is called Maremma.Scansano is notable for Morellino di Scansano, a type of wine....
  
  
• Senigallia
  Senigallia
  Senigallia is a comune and port town on Italy's Adriatic coast, 25 km by rail north of Ancona, in the Marche region, province of Ancona....
  
  
• Terracina
  Terracina
  Terracina is a town and comune of the province of Latina - , Italy, 76 km SE of Rome by rail .-Ancient times:...
  
  
• Toritto
  Toritto
  Toritto is a town and comune in the province of Bari, Puglia, Italy.It lies in an agricultural area, with cultivation of mainly almond and olive trees.-History:...
  
  
• Trevi
  Trevi
  Trevi is an ancient town and comune in Umbria, Italy, on the lower flank of Monte Serano overlooking the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. It is 10 km SSE of Foligno and 20 km north of Spoleto....
  
  
• Varallo
  Varallo
  Varallo may refer to:*Varallo Sesia, an Italian comune in Province of Vercelli*Varallo Pombia, an Italian comune in province of Novara*Francisco Varallo , Argentine football forward player* Tanzio da Varallo...
  
  
• Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
  
• Vicovaro
  Vicovaro
  Vicovaro is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 45 km northeast of Rome....
  
  
• Vigevano
  Vigevano
  Vigevano is a town and comune in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, northern Italy, which possesses many artistic treasures and runs a huge industrial business. It is at the center of a district called Lomellina, a great rice-growing agricultural centre...
  
  
• Villa Santa Maria
  Villa Santa Maria
  Villa Santa Maria is a town and comune in the province of Chieti, in the region of Abruzzo of southern Italy....
  
  
• Zafferana Etnea
  Zafferana Etnea
  Zafferana Etnea is a comune in the Province of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about 160 km southeast of Palermo and about 20 km north of Catania....
  
  

• Bellinzona
  Bellinzona
  Bellinzona is the administrative capital of the canton Ticino in Switzerland. The city is famous for its three castles that have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000....
  
  , Canton Ticino : A late fifteenth-century church which was attached to a Franciscan convent.

• Catania
  Catania
  Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
  
  
• S. Pellegrino di Gualdo
  Gualdo Tadino
  Gualdo Tadino, an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Mt. Penna, a mountain of the Apennines. It is 47 km NE of Perugia and 30 km SE of Gubbio....
  
  
• Teramo
  Teramo
  Teramo is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo.The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines and the Adriatic coast...
  
  
• Torretta
  Torretta
  Torretta is a comune in the province of Palermo located on the Mediterranean island of Sicily.This town is situated on a mountainous area overlooking Palermo....
  
  
• Pontassieve
  Pontassieve
  Pontassieve is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 14 km east of Florence, nearby Fiesole, at the confluence of the Arno and Sieve rivers.-History:...
  
  

There are many thousands of paintings by this name thruout Italy.