Sant'Anna ("Saint Anne", also called ''Sant'Anna Cappuccini'') is a Catholic church in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy. It is annexed to the former monastery of the Capuchine friars and it belongs to the (FEC).Il patrimonio del Fondo edifici di culto
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History

The Church was built between 1630 and 1634, and the ex friary between 1633 and 1636. Both of them were constructed because of the necessity of the

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friars (who lived in a monastery annexed to a Church inside the cemetery of Cappuccini until 1566Cataldo, Carlo (1982). Guida storico-artistica dei beni culturali di Alcamo-Calatafimi-Castellammare del Golfo. Alcamo: Sarograf. needed to get near the town. In 1866 the Capuchine friary was abolished. The parish of Sant'Anna, called by people from Alcamo "Li Scappuccini"http://www.trapaninostra.it/libri/carlo_cataldo/Splendori_della_memoria/Splendori_della_memoria-04.pdf Carlo Cataldo, "Splendori della memoria", p. 49 was created in 1947.

Description and works

The Church is with a single nave, has a

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and seven chapels, embellished by frescoes made by Leonardo Mirabile and Giovanni Dato, while the frescoes on the nave and the vault were realized by Eugenio Ligotti and Salvatore Gagliano from Palermo. This is the list of the works: * The baptistry, dating back to 1948, houses a marble christening

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adorned with an angel on its top. * High altar: since 1949 there has been a wooden group of statues of

Saint Anne According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...

with the young Madonna, made by Luigi Santifaller and his firm. In the left chapels, starting from those nearer to the altar: * In the first chapel: a wooden group representing the Most Holy Crucifix, Saint John and Our Lady of Sorrows. The statues of Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint John were realized by Michele Valenza (1708–1790) from Trapani. * In the second chapel (formerly dedicated to Saint Anne and with a painting of the Visitation): a wooden representation of the

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, carved by Giuseppe Stuflesser from Ortisei. * In the third chapel (once dedicated to the Madonna of Purity): a wooden statue of the Our Lady of Lourdes, realized by Luigi Santifaller's firm. In the right chapels, following the same order, you can see: * In the first chapel: a painting on canvas assigned to Felice da Sambuca (a friar), representing

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, Our Lady and the Infant Jesus with the Blessed Bernardo from Corleone and Saint Rosalia at their feet. * In the second chapel: a canvas painting made in 1916 by Leonardo Mirabile from Alcamo and representing Our Lady of Confusion. This painting is a copy of that one made by

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dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, kept in the

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, and stolen in 1979. * In the third chapel: a wooden statue of

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, carved by Ludovico Mirabella from Alcamo (the father of the historian Francesco Maria Mirabella). * In the niche, next to the entrance: Ecce Homo, a beautiful painting made by the Flemish school. The representations of the 14 stations of the Cross, which are on the walls of the church. were also made by Felice da Sambuca, a friar. In the

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there is a little alabaster statue of

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and a painting of the Finding of Our Lady of Miracles made by fra Felice da Sambuca), which once were probably kept in the chapel of the Madonna of Purity, together with the paintings of Ecce homo (later placed on the right side of the church's entrance) and that of Saint Anne. Inside the ex friary there are also some paintings on canvas, kept in one of the church chapels until 1884, representing Judas’ betrayal, Jesus' capture and the Virgin Mary with the sleeping Infant Child.

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* * * http://www.trapaninostra.it/libri/carlo_cataldo/Splendori_della_memoria/Splendori_della_memoria-04.pdf Carlo Cataldo, "Splendori della memoria", p. 49.

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