Chiesa di Gesù e Maria, Reggio Calabria
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The Chiesa di Gesù e Maria is a
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
church located in the city of
Reggio Calabria Reggio di Calabria (; ), commonly and officially referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the List of cities in Italy, largest city in Calabria as well as the seat of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. As ...
in the region of
Calabria Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian S ...
, Italy. The damaged church at the site was razed after the 1908 earthquake and rebuilt in a neoclassical-style. It has three naves. On the right is the Funeral monument to Giuseppe Molisani. The church houses a modern bronze ''Via Crucis'' by the sculptor Ennio Tesei. The two angels on the main altar support a throne, and the reliefs on the two lecterns are by the sculptor Pasquale Panetta.Reggio Calabria Tourism office
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