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New Church of
San Nicolò di Bari
The new San Nicolò church was built as the new religious center of the town, along with the Parish of Maria SS. Assunta at the Convent, starting in 1957.
The new church took on the form of the previous one and featured a dome, 22 meters high, covered in copper, and a bell tower housing six bells, which had been made since the 16th century. Furnishings, marbles, altar fronts, pulpits, altars, and paintings were all salvaged from the old San Nicolò.
The interior represented a synthesis of the old and the new: among the many statues, the "Madonna della Neve" from the 16th century, before the school of Gagini, the statues of the Patron Saints, the Sacred Heart of Jesus (whose devotion began in San Nicolò di San Fratello in 1870, among the first three parishes in Sicily to establish the Apostolate of Prayer), and the imposing 18th-century wooden group of the Madonna of Carmel, most of them following the Neapolitan school.
Before the statuary production, the church housed eight grand paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, most of which depicted the Mother of the Lord as the central theme: The Souls in Purgatory by F. Liuzzo (1701), The Nativity of Christ by G. Tommasi, Madonna of the Lume and Madonna of the Rosary (the latter with 15 small paintings embedded in the frame depicting the mysteries of the Rosary), both by O. Sozzi; The Guardian Angel, The Saints Helpers (1797), and The Immaculate Conception with the Saints of the Counter-Reformation along with the painting of the Crucifixion, provided by the great wooden Redeemer in lime wood.
The entire decorative cycle was completed by twelve imposing stained glass windows, made in 1997 in the Palermo style. On the back wall, the sumptuous pipe organ, made in 1857 in Acireale, was installed, while hanging between the arches of the columns were twelve nymphs made of glass and metal, crafted in Palermo in the second half of the 19th century. During the most recent liturgical adaptation works of the grand temple, a large mosaic of the Risen Christ was created by the artist Venturelli from Montepulciano and placed in the apse of the main altar.
Of the vast temple, which was also severely compromised by the recent hydrogeological disaster of February 14, 2010, only the artwork of the Risen Christ remains. All the items that could be salvaged from the demolished church have been preserved, awaiting a new providential opportunity that will allow the community to have a new temple and a suitable building for parish life for the often-tested community.
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