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    Saint Maria del suffragio - Purgatory

Santa Maria del suffragio
 

The Church was realized in 1670 by the architect Michelangelo Costantino on an old Middle Ages structure.

The classical prospect is divided into two orders and it is decorated with a dismally decoration characterized by skeletons, crowned skulls, angels and souls of the purgatory.

The structure is characterized by only a nave and the altars are located in lateral chapels. In the chapels there are decorations and paintings belonging to Nicola Gliro, Gennaro Somma, Raffaele Armenise and Nicola Aglieri.


There is a Madonna portrait by Francesco Antonio Altobelli and a Heart of God by Gaetano Spinelli.

During the Easter period the Purgatory Church becomes the point of departure of the famous Holy Friday procession.
The statues march through the streets of the ancient town and during the whole year they are guarded in the Church.

These statues are: “God dead”, also called “nach” that is the artistic golden cradle realized in nineteenth century. There is the “Addolorata” (Our Lady of Sorrows) too, and the reliquary silver cross of the nineteenth century, that guards two little pieces of the God Cross, also called “stauroteca”.

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