San Severino Cathedral ( it, Duomo di San Severino, ''Concattedrale di Sant’Agostino''), also known locally as the New Cathedral (''Duomo nuovo''), is a 17th-century Neo-classical Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Augustine, located on the Piazza del Duomo in San Severino Marche, region of

Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The region is located in the central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the ...

, Italy. In 1827 it became the cathedral of the

Diocese of San Severino The former Italian Catholic Diocese of San Severino, in the Province of Macerata, Marche in Central Italy, existed until 1986. In that year it was united into the Archdiocese of Camerino to form the Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche. Hi ...

. Since 1986 it has been a co-cathedral of the

Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche The Italian Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche ( la, Archidioecesis Camerinensis-Sancti Severini in Piceno) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory, seated in Camerino, a city in the Province of Macerata, in the central Italian Marc ...

History

A church on the site was built in the 13th century by the

Augustinians Augustinians are members of Christian religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo. There are two distinct types of Augustinians in Catholic religious orders dating back to the 12th–13 ...

in the place of an earlier one dedicated to Saint

Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to crucifixion of Jesus, his cru ...

. In 1488 Liberato Bartelli was made prior of the church in his home town of San Severino. To commemorate the occasion, he commissioned an oil painting, the ''Madonna of Peace'' from Pinturicchio, which he donated to the church. It is now in the Pinacoteca Civica Padre Pietro Tacchi Venturi in San Severino. Rebuilt over the centuries, in 1827 it underwent a major reconstruction to become a cathedral. It retains a 15th-century facade. It contains remnants of frescoes by Lorenzo d'Alessandro.Comune of Sanseverino Marche
tourism, monuments.

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