 | The Church of the Holy Spirit (for osunesi 'Holy Spirit'), was built in 1637 at the behest of the bishop officiated Meling and I originally priests of the College of St. Charles. In terms of architecture the building has a single nave with stone vault and lunettes. The facade is smooth and only moved in the broken pediment with the coat of arms of Bishop author of building. Only affects the portal for its size and ornamental elements that characterize it. Its origin, however, is much older than the church of the Holy Spirit since it was established in 1450 and originally located on the front of the medieval church of All Saints. The latter was once located in Piazza del Moro (now Square Samson) and then was rebuilt in 1713 in the current off Freedom Square to be finally demolished in 1870. The architect Ferdinand Ayroldi arranged to retrieve the portal and place it on the face of the Holy Spirit. The peculiarity of the article is that it is a portal with a lunette and a spire. The lunette is carved in relief the Dormition of the Virgin Mary on his death bed by the apostles and guarded by the angels and at the foot of the bed in a prayerful attitude from the developer of that we identified in the person of Bishop Monsignor Arpone. The superb portal is the most elaborate and expressive of all the portals and city highlights on a stylistic level the Gothic style. The interior has few artistic elements of the recall, including a painting by Fra 'Giacomo da San Vito, a seventeenth-century wooden statue depicting Sant'Oronzo placed in the niche of the altar dedicated to the same Saint that in this church since 1656-57 was celebrated, an eighteenth-century statue of Our Lady of Good Counsel. |  | ||
The façade | The fanlight with you | |||
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The inside | The statue of S. Oronzo | |||
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The cloth of Giacomo from S. Vito | The Madonna of the Good Board |
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