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Sansevero 's
Chapel
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Via F. De Sanctis, 19
The Sansevero of the Sangro' Chapel , called also "Saint
Maria of the Pity of the Sangro" or " Pietatella", was built in
1590 as sepulchral chapel of the family.
To make this chapel a leg inevitable of your trip, are statues
of the Demureness, the Disillusionment and the
Veiled Christ.
The Demureness is the name of the funeral monument of
Cecilia Gaetani of Aragon, mother of Mr. Raymond, dead in young
age; the Corradini, to express the concept of the "veiled
bashfulness ", carved a beautiful naked woman covered by a
transparent veil that makes her totally indecent for the
generosity of the opulent forms.
The Disillusionment, is the one of Antonio de Sangro,
prince's father, dead in 1757, that, upset by the great pain for
the death of his wife, he abandoned himself to a wandering and
uneasy life discovering the "deception " and then retirind to
monastic life surrendering the things of the world and the child
Raimondo to his father Paolo.
Francesco Queirolo
represented a man (Antonio) that make him free from a net that
envelops him, working in with only one marmoreal block.
The Veiled Christ is the synthesis of the whole
chapel. Initially the sculpture, commissioned to
the Corradini, it had to represent
the Passion. At the death of Corradini, however, the sculputure was
realized by Sammartino with the same suggestive techniques
of the Demureness .
In the crypt you can find Anatomical Machines, two human bodies which
the prince, with a prepared of his invention, has
removed the " bodily wrap ", making of metal the whole system of
the veins and the arteries. At present we don't know how he did
it , who were the two miserable persons and if they were already dead
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Fontanelle's Graveyard -
Piazza Fontanelle alla Sanità n.154
The graveyard is dug-out in the
hill of Materdei. You can enter here fromthe little church of SS. Maria del
Carmine. Up to 1836 it 3was the ossuary of the city. The greatest part of
the skeletons go back to the terrible pestilence that, in 1656, decreased
the number of the inhabitants from 400.000 to 100.000.
In 1952 Roger Peyrefitte wrote: "In two wide galleries, tall a dozen and
long hundred meters, there were thousand and thousand of skulls and bones
illuminated by thousand of candles. The bones are arranged for type and in
geometric forms except some skulls that are in wood showcases, they are
remains of "adopted souls".... It looks like an immense cathedral of the
death. The unreal silence was broken only from the litanies of the old women
that recited prayers for the souls of the Purgatory."
After a period of closing, the graveyard was reopened in 1872. From this
period, the cult of the souls " pezzentelle " began. Every devotee adopted a
skull, that corresponded to a soul "pezzentella ", that is a soul abandoned
and without prayers, he gave him a worthy setup in a showcase and
visits often him bringing flowers and candles and reciting "requiem aeterna
". In change the adoptive parent wanted graces and protection and if these
didn't happen he abandoned the skull and he adopted another one. |
"San Gennaro's Miracle"
- Naples Cathedral
http://www.duomodinapoli.com/
The legend tell that Gennaro, bishop of Benevento, lived in
the period of Diocleziano's Christian persecutions. In that period Sossio
was bishop of Miseno. While Gennaro was going to Miseno for a liturgy,
Sossio was imprisoned. So Gennaro, went to meet him at prison with his
deacon Festo and the lector Desiderio. Here they were recognized as
Christians and captured. Martyrs were beheaded and their blood was put
into ampullas from some faithfuls.It was the 305 d.c.. Between 413-432 the
Bishop of Naples decided to give him a worthy grave moving his remains in
the catacomb on the hill of Capodimonte. On
August 17th, 1389 there was the first news of the miracle of
blood liquefaction. It was the Assunta's holiday and San Gennaro's relics
were shown to faithfuls: the blood was fluid like if it was spurted the same
day. The miracle recurs 3 times per year: eve of the first Sunday of
May (first translation), December 16th (anniversary of
Vesuvio's eruption of 1631), and September 19 (death's date).
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