San Giuliano is a

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church and attached convent located on Via Crocifero #36 of

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, southern

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. It stands across from the Collegio dei Gesuiti (Jesuit college), whose church of San Francesco Borgia also faces Crociferi. Two blocks north on Crociferi is the baroque church of

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History and description

The church was erected at the site of a prior church that had been razed by the

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. It is dedicated the St

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church was built between 1739 and 1751 using designs by

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and Vincenzo Caffarelli. The church has an elaborate convex facade. The upper story has windows shielded by a dense iron grate, these windows were used by the cloistered

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nuns of the attached monastery to watch the splendid procession of the day of Sant'Agata as it passed by. The portal has an added shield of a tall metal fence. The facade pediment is broken and each pediment holds a reclining maiden, sculpted by Gaspare Ciriaci. The entrance door have a cross of the

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, who restored the church after 1939. The interior nave is an elongated asymmetric octagon with a main altar and four shallow circumferential minor altars, designed by Antonino Battaglia, the son of

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. The main altar in polychrome was designed by

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, and sculpted by

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. the statuettes flanking the throne and painted cross, depict allegories of Faith and Charity. The minor altarpieces depict: *''The Madonna of the Graces with St Joseph and St Benedict'' by

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. *''St Anthony Abbot in Ecstasy'' by Pietro Abbadessa. *''Scenes of the Life of St Julian and his Martyrdom'' *''Crucifixion scene with Mary of the Sorrows, Mary Magdalen, and St John the Evangelist'' The cupola was frescoed by Giuseppe Rapisardi in 1842, depicting ''God the Father and St Peter consign the Gospels to St Berillo''.Berillo of Catania was the first century archbishop of Catania.

References

*Derived from Italian Wikipedia entry {{DEFAULTSORT:Giuliano 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Roman Catholic churches in Catania