The barrel vault that forms the northern arm of the building is decorated with a sparkling indigo sky, adorned with elegant radiant flowers that stretch out like a mantle, echoing the words of Isaiah (40,22): “It is he who stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in”.
Encased in circles, radiant with gold or crowns of petals, heavenly-white flowers alternate with red ones. The white flowers resemble daisies, whose camomile was used on battlefields to soo the wounds. The red flowers recall anemones, whose Greek name – ànemos, evoking the soul (anima, in Italian) – symbolises the blood of Christ. This large miraculous carpet recalls Oriental decorative motifs that spread across the Mediterranean through silks, carpets and precious metal objects.