Opened the 7 October 2010, the Diocesano Museum “Mons. Aurelio Sorrentino” of Reggio Calabria is located on the ground floor of the Archiepiscopal Palace that was built at the end of the 1700's next to the Cathedral of Maria SS.ma Assunta.
The exhibition aims, in particular, at documenting the distinguished historical and religious characteristics of the ancient Episcopal centres of Reggio Calabria and Bova, merged in 1986.
The pieces are shown in thematically arranged spaces, dedicated to the Fragments of the memory, where you can find marbles from the 9th century that belonged to the ancient Cathedral; to the Celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, where the visitors can see a reconstruction of an exceptional altar, and sacred objects and vases that are used for the Eucharist; to the Art for the Liturgy, in this section there are instruments and tools for aspersion, incensing, reciting and preaching. to the Treasure of the Cathedrals, where we exhibit sacred silverware dated back to the 16th and 19th century, distinguished emblems of the dignity and role of the bishop where a great level of commitment to the piece of art is clearly shown; to the Relation between Art and Devotion with furnishings and fittings, liturgical dresses that belonged to the Confraternity of Reggio; and to the Art and Cult of the Saints, with relics and tools with sacred images.
The most important exposed pieces are: The Resurrection of Lazar attributed to the Neapolitan painter Francisco De Mura, apprentice of Francisco Solimena ( 3rd decade of the 18th century); the Ostensory Radial painted by the polistenese Francisco Jerace in 1928, for the Regional Eucharistic Conference in Reggio Calabria, the Reliquary of the arm of St. John Theriste from the 17th century, which was given by Apollinare Agresta, the abbot of the Italian-Greek monastery to monsignor Marcantonio Contestabile, bishop of Bova from 1669 to 1699; the Pastoral of monsignor Antonio de Ricci, archbishop of Reggio from 1453 to 1490, a silver piece in Neapolitan-school style; a Crucifix in ivory donated to the Cathedral by the archbishop Alexander Tommasini (1818-1826); a french Chalice in silver and enamel, donated in 1879 by Queen Maria Cristina of Spain to the card. Luigi Tripepi; precious handmade weavings that belonged to the Confraternity of the Immaculate, in the church of SS Annunziata, one of them is a wall-hanging made of brocade of silk, made by a Lyionese manufacture (around the beginning of the 18th century); two Crowns in silver dated to 1614, that were part of the marble bust of the Madonna with Child, in the Con-Cathedral of the Madonna Isodia in Bova.
The Diocesan Museum
Address: via Tommaso Campanella, 63, 89127
Phone: 3387554386 - 0965385510
Site:
http://www.museodiocesanoreggiocalabria.it/Location inserted by
Lucia Lojacono