Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary
The Sanctuary Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary ( Santuario della Beata Vergine del Rosario ) is a Roman Catholic Mary - Sanctuary in Pompei in the Italian metropolitan city of Naples . The neo-baroque dome - Basilica was 1878-1891 at the initiative of Blessed Bartolo Longo in honor of the Queen of the Rosary built and substantially extended from 1934 to 1939. It holds 6,000 believers. The Marian Shrine is the cathedral of the territorial prelature Pompei and has the rank of papal basilica .
history
Bartolo Longo (1841–1926), lawyer and heir to a large fortune, had set himself the goal of promoting the rosary after his religious conversion . For his Rosary Church planned in the valley of Pompei he was given a picture of Our Lady with the child, who presented the rosary to two saints. The unsightly and neglected image, which Longo disliked, was soon credited with an initial miracle cure, and others followed, and it became a pilgrimage destination. Longo and the Neapolitan noblewoman Mariana di Fusco, whom he married in 1885, made possible the construction of the pilgrimage church with their foundations, along with important works by Caritas . The single-nave church on a cross plan was completed in 1891 and, due to the large number of prayers, from 1934 two aisles with chapels and a choir ambulatory were added. Pope John Paul II visited the shrine in 1979 and 2003, Pope Benedict XVI. 2008.
Architecture and equipment
The rosary basilica faces north. The choir and transept arms close with round apses . A dome with a high drum stands above the crossing , surrounded by four secondary domes . The show facade in the south and the 80 m high campanile with a publicly accessible viewing platform, completed in 1925, are richly structured and adorned with statues . The side aisles are divided into chapels with their own flat domes and apses; the chapel wreath on the choir shows the same design .
The interior of the church is richly decorated with mosaics , frescoes and sculptures , which thematically revolve around the secrets of the rosary .
Dome and vault
Choir room with altar and miraculous image
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organ
The organ was built in 1952 by the Mascioni organ building company. The slider chest instrument has 85 registers on five manual works and a pedal , playable from a three-manual console. The works are distributed over six independent organ bodies in the church. The actions are electric.
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Archbasilica: St. John Lateran
Other Basilicae maiores : St. Paul Outside the Walls | St. Peter in the Vatican | Maria Maggiore in Rome |
Other papal basilicas :
St. Francis in Assisi | Mary of the Angels in Assisi St. Nicholas in Bari | Holy House in Loreto | St. Michael in Madrid | St. Anthony in Padua | Mary of the Rosary in Pompei | St. Lawrence Outside the Walls in Rome
Patriarchal basilicas : Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem | St. Mark in Venice | Assumption in Aquileia
Basilicae minores : (Lists: German-speaking countries | BeNeLux | France | Italy, Vatican, San Marino | Poland | Slovakia | Spain, Portugal | other countries )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Storia e arte
- ↑ More information about the organ (Italian)
Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 14 ° 30 ′ 2.1 ″ E