Militello in Val di Catania. Chiesa confraternale of the Madonna della Catena

A true female pantheon is the Church of the Madonna della Catena, built in 1541 and survived the earthquake. Inside, a seventeenth-century baroque decoration in white and gilded stucco adorns the walls, with the figures of twelve Sicilian Virgin Saints in the lower order and the Joyful Mysteries in the upper one. A riot of cherubs, shells and festoons surrounds the main figures. From the mid-1600s is the inlaid wooden coffered ceiling, like the wooden choir.