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The church of Holy Caterina
 The
church of Holy Caterina close to the homonymous street, stands in a
quarter placed at the margin of the old city center.
The building, as it is written on the architrave of the major door, dates back
to 1610.
The founders
 were the
calabrian Domenico Villina, and his son the priest Bartolomeo,
who with act of 11.18.1679, intending to found in Bronte the
Pious Schools, assigned all their possessions and the church of
Holy Caterina for the maintenance of the schools. "The schools were not built, writes
B. Radice, nor anyone knows why, and the
prebend remained to the priests benefit". The church, partially damaged by the earthquake of 1818, was
restored recently. (1988-1989).
 The building, of small dimensions, is of linear and very sober
plan.
Of austere aspect, the simple drawing of the basaltic portal; the transept dome,
to round arch, are set up on four plumed elements and surmounted
by a little lantern.
The small belfry is located
above the left nave, along the border looking on Santa Caterina
street.
The inside
is shaped as a
Latin cross, with only one nave and adjacent pertinences; it is
animated by the ornamental lines and the simply projecting
frames. It has three well made altars lined with polychrome marbles: to
the right the one dedicated to the Assunta, to the left that of
S. Bartholomew. Among the precious religious and
ceremonial objects until a few decades ago owned by the church
(reliquaries, chalices and monstrances of various ages) we show on the
right a censer in embossed, chiseled and pierced silver by Bartolomeo
Bartolotta (1753) decorated with motifs floral. |
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