Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio or Purgatory

Cultural religious site

The church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, called del Purgatorio, in the Borgo Nuovo in Fuoriporta, Seat of the Brotherhood of Death and Prayer, in 1759 he opened his sacristy to the ACADEMY OF EXCITED Viciensi. The philosophical, scientific and religious who animated the cenacle, still hovers in the temple, where he was buried Msgr. Domenico Arcaroli, academic and last bishop of Vieste, and one of the most excited. The chapel of the Addolorata of the Church of the Purgatory housed, in the wooden benches of the choir, the Enlightenment vichesi ante litteram. They were priests, Capuchin fathers, doctors, physicists. They met weekly, to discuss the “halved rhythms of everyday life” in this church outside the walls of the small Viking city in the walls, a unique mixture of underground carpets and palatial dwellings. The Vichean intelligence thinks it can introduce a projection on the search for the happiness of eighteenth-century men. How? Exciting them. Pulling them out, waking them from the sleep of the culture. The Excites place themselves in the custody of the “Madonna dei Sette Dolori”, but the understanding is secular; a thorough search for reason. They discuss, with great competence, of social and economic issues. They firmly believe that the revival of studies is the only element of human civilization for counter the new barbarians. Guarded a fragment of the Holy Cross.

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