Churches & Places of Worship

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

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

A true female pantheon is the Church of the Madonna della Catena, built in 1541 and survived the earthquake. Inside, a seventeenth-century baroque...

Militello in Val di Catania. Chiesa of the Santissimo Crocifisso al Calvario

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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Not far from Militello rises Mount Caruso on whose summit, in 1610, a wooden cross was raised, as it was on Golgotha. For this reason, when a church...

Militello in Val di Catania. Church of Sant’Antonio di Padova (or of “Sant’Antonino”)

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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According to tradition, first an aedicule and then a church (1503-1574), were built right where Sant’Antonio di Padova would have...

Militello in Val di Catania. Church of the Santissimo Sacramento al Circolo

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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Built in 1724, this church was intended for the exposure of the Blessed Sacrament. Its baroque façade with a concave profile reveals how the...

Militello in Val di Catania. Church an Monastery of San Francesco di Paola all’Annunziata dei frati minimi

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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Antonio Piero Barresi built a church for S. Maria Annunziata around 1480, enlarged with the monastery between 1503 and 1515. The Dominicans settled...

Militello in Val di Catania. Church and Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli dei frati Cappuccini

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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Caterina Barresi founded the monastery in 1575, next to a small pre-existing church. The complex was renovated in 1709 and hosted the friars until...

Militello in Val di Catania. Church (Municipal Auditorium) and Monastery of San Domenico dei Frati predicatori

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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It was Francesco Branciforti who had the church and convent built for the Dominicans, inaugurating them in 1613. Damaged in 1693, it was restored...

Militello in Val di Catania. Church and Monastery of San Leonardo Abate

: Benedicta Lee; Category: Churches & Places of Worship; 16 March 2018; SICILIA • CATANIA • Militello in Val di Catania

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The church was built by the Barresi in the mid-1500s, as the seat of a brotherhood devoted to this hermit. The Branciforti built the monastery,...

Churches & Places of Worship

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

Militello in Val di Catania. Chiesa of the Santissimo Crocifisso al Calvario

Militello in Val di Catania. Church of Sant’Antonio di Padova (or of “Sant’Antonino”)

Militello in Val di Catania. Church of the Santissimo Sacramento al Circolo

Militello in Val di Catania. Church an Monastery of San Francesco di Paola all’Annunziata dei frati minimi

Militello in Val di Catania. Church and Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli dei frati Cappuccini

Militello in Val di Catania. Church (Municipal Auditorium) and Monastery of San Domenico dei Frati predicatori

Militello in Val di Catania. Church and Monastery of San Leonardo Abate

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