Church Montevergine

Montevergine

The Church founded on plan of architect Nicolò Francesco Maffei towards the end of XVII the century, came completed from the son of this Antonio.Pope John Paul II in the Church of Montevergine for the Santificazione of the Eustochia Blessed soul. Smeralda Caulker was born in 1434 in the Announced Village where its rich family had sheltered itself in order to escape to the plague that plagued the city. Since giovinetta it showed endured Its purpose to dedicate to the own life to the Getlteman dressing the monacale dress of the rule of Chiara Saint and assuming the name of Eustochia. It built up a Monastero of rigorous observance of the rules of Chiara Saint and lead one entire life dedicated to the Getlteman. Its body still incorrotto after beyond 500 years from Its dead women, is exposed to the devotion of the faithfuls in the Monastery of Montevergine.

Here, your "messinese" Saint new, daughter of the Sicily, seem to repeat through the centuries and the generations this I invite of Christ: < < I in you remain in me and >>,,," (from the Omelia of the Pope in occasion of the canonization);

"... I have thought next to the life of this your mother and fondatrice sister, than today she arrives to the honors of the altar like one Saint, Saint of this earth, Female saint of this city... " (S.S. Giovanni Paul II to the Clarisse di Montevergine);

"... from centuries the invocate ones like protecting: continued to imitate of the eucaristica mercy; like She loved the Saintest Maria, whose devotion very is radicated in your earth... "(from the Omelia of the Pope in occasion of the Canonization);