Sanctuary Our Lady of Pompei

 

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The Church rises on the hill of the olive-grove, it was built to work of the Fathers Cappuccini in 1888.


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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