MARIA of the ANGELS (The 'CAPPUCCINI')

Historical notes by Prof. Luigi Greco
 

The church and the attached convent were built on to end of Five hundred and they entertained his/her fathers Cappuccini up to 1866. The complex was damaged because of the earthquake of February 20 th 1743 and was to a large extent reconstructed. The same church preserving a sixteenth-century imprint also reveals the signs of the eighteenth-century jobs in the altars, in the choir and in the time. The façade of the church is tripartite from slightly injured with of it to the center a portal with frame aggettante. On the side wall they have together been situated three statues situated pitree of the end of the Five hundred once in plaza St. Domenico and formanti the Calvary to an iron cross it posts to memory of a famous duel happened in Six hundred between the duke of Martina and that of Walnut-trees that saw losing this last child of Giangirolamo Acquaviva known as the Guercio of Puglia. The inside of the church is in the most sober style of fathers cappuccini and introduces different altars pitrei risalenti to 1750 and the great car of the most greater altar in wood with three paintings of merit work of an unknown painter. Other three paintings are found situated in the shuttle side while different wooden statues decorate the niches of the various altars among which they detach that of St. Rocco, the immaculate one, the Christ Risen.


 
The façade
  
The statues of stone and the cross in iron
  
The Christ Risen
  
The altar with the three cloths
  
Wood statues
  
The three paintings in the side shuttle
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