Madonna delle Grazie o del Letto - Pistoia

According to the most accepted tradition in 1336 August a hospitalized girl hospital said S. Jacopo and S. Lorenzo (the hospital was founded by Giovanni di Matteo Gualdimari in 1330 to house the poor and strangers in transit, sick and pilgrims) was miraculously healed from a long illness through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, after his appearance. As a result of the miracle of the classroom hospital was transformed into an oratory; but in the fifteenth century it was built in its place a new church dedicated to St. Maria delle Grazie, also called the bed, because in it is preserved the bed of the miracle girl.

In addition, the story of San Lorenzo hospital seem to be also linked to other miraculous events: it is said that the plague of 1348 has been announced in Pistoia by an apparition of the Madonna in the same hospital, and that it ordered a friar the nearby convent to begin to preach in the city. This is to make sure to induce Pistoia to repent of their sins and then be reconciled with God, thus avoiding the plague sow even more victims.

In 1469 the People's Council deliberated a substantial contribution to the building up of the church, which at that time had already begun. In the construction completed towards the end of the century it seems ascertained the work of Ventura Vitoni, perhaps in the completion phase. In 1526 the monastery built next to the church was entrusted to a community of nuns under the Rule of St. Augustine, after the suppression by order of Bishop Ricci, the complex was built in the Hospital del Ceppo. By decree of Bishop Rossi of March 10, 1841 was erected in the parish, "the church of SS. Delle Grazie VIRGIN aka the bed"