Montalto Delle Marche Cathedral
Montalto Cathedral, otherwise the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta e San Vito ( it, Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Montalto delle Marche), is the principal Roman Catholic church of the town of Montalto delle Marche, province of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Le Marche, Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (and to Saint Vitus). The church was formerly, from 1586, the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Montalto. When the diocese was subsumed into the present Roman Catholic Diocese of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto, Diocese of San Benedetto del Tronto–Ripatransone–Montalto in 1986, Montalto Cathedral became a co-cathedral in the new diocese. It was created a basilica minor by Pope Paul VI in 1965. History The diocese of Montalto was founded in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V, who erected the present crypt of the church. The pope had received his religious training in the convent of San Francesco in the town. Some authors state the Pope intended t ...
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