In the night between the 12th and 13 August in 1943, the church, sharing the fate of many other Milanese churches, was heavily damaged by Anglo-American aerial bombs of World War II: three explosive bombs demolished the shrine of the Madonna — erected in 1704 and later used in the baptistery — the historical building to the left of the church and the group of historical buildings to the right of the temple (which, today, is Luigi Caccia Dominioni's historical building from 1961), destroying the shrine, its seventeenth-century furniture and the sixteenth-century fresco of the "Madonna del Grembiule" which were all found inside.