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Of the little church dedicated to San
Sebastiano, something certain was already known since 1574
in the "Liber Visitationes", written after the pastoral visit in
Bronte of Monsignor Ludovico Torres, bishop of Monreale.
It is placed in the via Matrice, in front of the side nave of the Church
Of The SS. Trinità.
Once the burial of the "civili" (the well to do people) was
performed here.
In 1622 was seat of the
Mercy Confraternity, from the beginnings of 1900 it became the oratory of
the Confraternity of the SS. Sacrament.
The scheme of the little church, unitary and simple, is a rectangular room with entry from the short side.
The prospect is a set of superimposed
architectural and decorative elements of several epochs.
A flight of steps in stone, perpendicular to the façade, leads to the
portal in lava stone of late Renaissance style, work of the skilful school
of local stone cutters.
Stair and portal occupy all the median part of the façade which, on the
crowning, with a jutting tympanum strengthens the image of a prospect
divided into vertical sections, as though the building had three naves.
In the lower section four columns with Corinthian capitals support a
high pediment. The everything is represented
with the technique of graffiti and tempera.
The inside has one only nave of
unusual proportions with covering of feigned vault; the side
walls are pronounced by outlined pilasters and arches, without
depth, surmounted by a frame twisting round the set of the vault.
The San Sebastiano statue is exposed in the niche of the back wall.
It is thought that, in the ancient time, when Bronte did
not have a municipal house, some popular meetings and court cases took
place in this church.
Today the little church, deconsecrated, is in absolute decay; Almost bare
of everything, it is used as deposit of the Confraternity Of The SS.
Sacrament. |
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The ropes and the thorn crown used in the procession of
Holy Friday from the
confraternity of the SS. Sacrament |
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