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The
Sanctuary had destroyed from the 1908 earthquake
(already we are repetitive,...), to exception of
the Simulacre of the Madonna. In 1909 first,
then in 1912 and finally in 1935 the Fathers
Cappuccini rebuilt, with spirit of abnegation,
the Sanctuary together to the admitted convent.
In 1943 the Americans amused oneself (the war
only a pretext), the " liberators ", in fact,
struck without pity the vital heart of a city,
with incendiary bombs they destroyed Messina
once more; the bombardments were thick and
unjustified, aimed at to strike an unarmed
population exclusively and to destroy artistic
and monumental work, between these, the holy
work of the Church in Pompei that you follow the
sad fate of it.
The
actual architectural complex was reconstructed
by the engineer Giovanni Trinò and reopened to
the cult in 1951. To the inside the central
aisle leans on pillars surmounted by arcs
ogivali in pure Gothic style. The coverage
weathered realized with slab dressed again in
wood. On the greatest altar, in marble elegantly
worked, it detaches the statuary group in wood
of the Madonna of the Rosary with her Child,
with St. Domenico and Saint Caterina. Fifteen
big paintings illustrate the mysteries of the
Rosary. On the external prospectus in the
triangle, the same Madonna of Pompeii towers in
a mosaic of big effect. A beautiful rose window
in the body of the bell tower and a series of
windows Gothic mullioned windows at times
together to five statues of appreciated invoice
they complete the façade artistically with the
portal in wood worked.

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