Jesus and Mary’s oratory built adjacent to the church’s left prospect, and
annexed to it, is still today the homonymous Confraternity
seat, founded in the XVI century, and once one of the most important
and best organized. The oratory exterior is not very significant as it is
dominated by the Sanctuary's majestic prospect to which gets confused and
integrated. It is enough to go through the small door to find yourself
in a delicious spot: a little church simple and linear, rich of
documentations and works of art, demonstration of the deep religious
feelings that once animate the confraternities life. Particularly interesting the frescos covering the walls that B. Radice strangely
defines “grossolani” (coarse). Nearly all of them are work of local artists and portray figures of
saints. In a corner below are portrayed the features of some
confraternity’s treasures that ordered the paintings at their own expense. Hardly known and protected they are irremediably disappearing and need
some protection and an urgent restoration. On the internal part of the door can be read:
"Aedicula
sumptibus sodalium Jesu et Mariae excitata, anno Dom. 1792, ut in tabulis
D. Cesarii Cannata, die 25 Januari 1801". Above is
the year of the little church decoration. In 1880 in the Oratory lived
the PP.Minoriti. Here on we shall document some of the little church’s frescos.
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