artistic and monumental heritage
Linguaglossa (second part)
Next to the Cathedral Church is a small square with a monument dedicated to the Madonna della Pineta early work of 1958, the sculptor Eugene Russo Catania; The work consists of a block of lava, taken from a cave formed by the eruption of 1566, when according to tradition, the patron saint Lingfield saved from destruction, the entire statement block lava broke just arrived in country on it stands a Madonna and kind of exquisite simplicity.
on Liberty Street is the church of the patron saint of Lingfield, Sant'Egidio Abate. The church of Sant'Egidio Abate is undoubtedly the oldest among the existing ones at Lingfield. Recent research in the Archives of the Vatican was able to find the first news of the existence of the Church, already existed in 1308 and had to pay the tithing to the Vatican. On folio 111 reads "Presbyter Iohannes cappellanus S. Egidio de ecclesie Language coarse , and again on folio 103: " cappellanus Languages \u200b\u200blarge tar. II "and the package 107: " cappellanus casalis Languages \u200b\u200blarge tar. I, gr. X. This data is obtained so that the Church of Sant'Egidio had to exist by the end of two hundred, and was certainly the mother church of the country.
We are not in possession of evidence that they then have to go to the foundation assumptions. Two of the most credible hypothesis. The first takes us back to the Normans. In an act of the notary Anthony Tarascon, one of the few who escaped the stake of the Church parish archive Mother who bears the date of August 25, 1669 reads: " the principle of the foundation and building of this city, some of the people said they saw the Saint in pontifical vestments and a miter-in-chief, taking advantage of his pastoral staff as Mosaic , just touching the altar on fire, that is, volcanic eruption of Etna dashing and threatening the city, the Church of it, it settled, and yet, allowing God, the law required them not to run more than that and never molest the city \u200b\u200bentrusted to him. " Just in the coming of the Normans is higher than the devotion to the saint. Suffice it to say that the great church of Sant'Egidio in London is just the Norman period. Another hypothesis is that the French Angevin or better. Charles I of Anjou, Count of Provence, was crowned king of Naples and Sicily by Pope Clement IV, who was just born in the French city where he settled Sant'Egidio, where he founded a monastery where he died in 726. Charles I of Anjou, nephew of the king who was also promoted to the Second Crusade, St. Louis, also a great devotee of Sant'Egidio, considering that in 1270 he went to the basilica of Saint Egidio in St. Gilles to pray at the tomb of the Holy have protection before leaving for the Second Crusade. Both hypotheses have some historical basis, but say it was one or another rule to introduce the cult of Holy, it is very difficult.
Recently the church has been nothing short of a radical restoration that has brought back to a time when even the church did not suffer the great restoration of the nineteenth century that had caused so much damage. Thanks to these restorations can be ascertained that the transept of the church is an integral part of the structure. The church had existed at the end of the thirteenth century and the first news I have is 1310. Very interesting is the left side of the church, where there is an old arched portal of sandstone and pumice in whose lintel is a carved mermaid who holds two snakes.
This allegorical figure that represents the struggle between good and evil, then tra la religione cristiana e quella pagana, รจ stata erroneamente indicata come l’antico stemma di Linguaglossa.
L’interno a croce latina presenta nel transetto affreschi del XVI secolo di squisita fattura che raffigurano scene della passione di Cristo e dietro l’altare del Santo Ateniese, San Pietro e San Paolo. Sopra un altare doviziosamente costruito con marmi colorati viene custodita la statua lignea del Santo Patrono. Alle pareti del transetto e della navata vi sono diversi quadri tutti dell’ottocento.(seconda parte)
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