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Sansevero 's Chapel - 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 or not.

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

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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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