Church of San Nicola

The church of San Nicola was erected in the land of Vico, since time immemorial, and consecrated by the Archbishop of Manfredonia, Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Orsini, during the Holy Visit of 1676, the crosses of consecration in stone and a plaque with the epigraph they attest to the event. In the seventeenth century it is documented, in the deeds of the Holy Visit, the presence of the brotherhood of the Dead of St. Nicholas, subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Of the foundation of this confraternity there is news in the diploma of Pope Urban VIII on 29.06.1625, presented in the circumstance by the prior to the Archbishop.
The granting of the Royal Assent of 10 June 1805 attests to the presence of the Brotherhood of the Most Holy Sacrament in the chapel of San Nicola di Vico. From the correspondences of the Chapter of the Collegiate, concerning the restitution of the patrimonial assets, we note that the confraternity, already existing near the main altar of the Mother Church, moved to the Church of San Nicola, together with the Chapter on the occasion of the renovations and expansion of the Mother Church in the XVIII century. The Platea written by Domenico Marrera, of the city of Vieste, in 1676 on behalf of the archbishop Ill.mo Br. Vincenzo Maria Orsini Archbishop Sipontino, preserved in the State Archives of Foggia, reports “The main altar to which the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, and still the altar does not hold dowry assigned but is maintained by the entrance of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament “Other correspondences at the State Archives of Foggia, documenting the aggregation with confraternity in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome and San Giovanni Maggiore in Naples, as per parchment transit drawn up by the notary royal and apostolic Berardino de Marco sent on 29 November 1541. A subsequent attestation of 3 October 1908, preserved in the church. The Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament is aggregated from 4 February 1700 to that erected in the Basilica of S. Eustachio in Rome. The title of Arciconfraternita was granted with Regio assenso of July 1830 and has reached the third millennium without interruption and continues to provide for the maintenance of the church.