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Santa Caterina D'Alessandria
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria may refer to the following churches in Italy: * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Padua, Veneto *Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Parma Santa Caterina d'Alessandria ( Saint Catherine of Alexandria) is a Roman Catholic church located in the borgo Santa Caterina of the city of Parma, Italy Santa Caterina façade History The church, with the adjacent Augustinian Monastery is first m ..., Emilia-Romagna * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Paternò, Catania, Sicily * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Pisa, Tuscany * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Soragna, Parma, Emilia-Romagna See also * Saint Catherine of Alexandria (other) {{Disambiguation, church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Caterina D'Alessandria
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria may refer to the following churches in Italy: * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Padua, Veneto *Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Parma Santa Caterina d'Alessandria ( Saint Catherine of Alexandria) is a Roman Catholic church located in the borgo Santa Caterina of the city of Parma, Italy Santa Caterina façade History The church, with the adjacent Augustinian Monastery is first m ..., Emilia-Romagna * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Paternò, Catania, Sicily * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Pisa, Tuscany * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Soragna, Parma, Emilia-Romagna See also * Saint Catherine of Alexandria (other) {{Disambiguation, church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Caterina D'Alessandria, Padua
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is a small, Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church and convent located on via Cesare Battisti #245 in the city of Padua in the region of Veneto, Italy. History A church was present here by the 13th century. Catherine of Alexandria was considered one of the patron saints of the University of Padua. By the 14th century, a student college was founded here. A nobleman of Padua, Jacopo D'Arqua, endowed the construction in 1594. The parish was suppressed in 1610 and the college converted into an Augustinian monastery for nuns who tended to poor women who lived on the margins of society. Built with the typical layout of a thirteenth-century oratory, in the 17th century it was renovated and decorated in Baroque style. A baptismal font used to baptize Livia and Gianvincenzo, children of Galileo Galilei was moved to Santa Sofia, Padua. The altar has polychrome marble with columns and a tympanum surmounted by sculptures, completed by a sculptor of the Bonazza fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Caterina D'Alessandria, Parma
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria ( Saint Catherine of Alexandria) is a Roman Catholic church located in the borgo Santa Caterina of the city of Parma, Italy Santa Caterina façade History The church, with the adjacent Augustinian Monastery is first mentioned in documents from 1313. The cult of St Catherine was boosted in 1332, when her intercession was credited with the victory of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor over the attacking armies of the Scaligeri and Gonzaga. In 1575, the monastery was passed on the capuchin monks, and so stayed till the 1810 suppression by Napoleon. In the late 1800s, the properties were re-acquired by the monks, but they have again ceded them to the bishop. The interior has a ''St Francis receiving stigmata'' attributed to Guercino, a ''Deposition'' by Biagio Martini, a ''Martyrdom of San Fedele da Sigmaringen'' by Clemente Ruta, a ''San Felice da Cantalice'' by Fra Semplice da Verona. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Caterina D'Alessandria, Paternò
The Church of St Catherine of Alexandria ( it, chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria) is a Roman Catholic church which takes up the most southern part of a wide area at the foot of the historic hill of Paternò in Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ..., near the Church of St Barbara and the former convent of St Annunziata. History The church was built between 1725 and 1730 in order to replace a more ancient building, which dated back to the middle of 16th century, which was damaged by the earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Caterina D'Alessandria, Pisa
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy. History It is mentioned for the first time in 1211, then associated with a hospital. The current edifice was built between 1251 and 1300, commissioned by Saint Dominic himself, and entrusted to the friars of his order. by Pandolfo Titi, Lucca (1751), page 144. The façade (completed in 1326) has a pointed shape with white and grey marble, with, in the upper section, two order of small Gothic s and a central [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
