After her assumption into heaven, Mary intercedes with God on mankind’s behalf, and like a mother accompanies her children in the Church. Sometimes she makes herself visible to those who are closest to her, as happened with the seven founders of the Order of the Servants of Mary. This apparition was portrayed by Alessandro Franchi in 1888, on the occasion of the founders’ canonization, in the canvas in the third chapel on the right. The Virgin Mary appears in a dream to the seven Holy Founders as they sleep, surrounded by a host of angels, holding out to them the habit of the order. Above and below the frame is the inscription: “Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars” (Proverbs 9:1), a clear reference to the Seven Holy Founders.

Two other paintings in the church depict apparitions of Our Lady to some members of the Servite order. In the fourth chapel on the left is a canvas painted in the seventeenth century by Francesco Curradi showing the vision of Saint Philip Benizi. The Virgin appears on a golden chariot drawn by a lamb and a lion, symbols of the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ, and shows the saint the habit of the Servites. On the left, among cherubs and angels, can be seen Saint Michael the Archangel with his sword and the scales for weighing souls at the Last Judgment. On the right, Saint Philip kneels in a contemplative pose; next to . . .