Frascati Cathedral
The Cathedral of Frascati or the Cathedral Basilica of the Apostle St. Peter ( Italian Basilica Cattedale San Pietro Apostolo ) is a church in Frascati in the capital of the Italian metropolitan city of Rome . The cathedral of the suburbicarian diocese of Frascati dates from the 17th century.
history
Today's cathedral of the Diocese of Frascati on the outskirts of Rome is already their fifth bishopric, before that, since 1538, this was the old church of Santa Maria in Vivario. However, this church became too narrow for the growing population, as Cardinal Bishop Alfonso Gesualdo discovered in 1588.
Under the new Cardinal Bishop Tolomeo Gallio , the new building was decided in 1599 with initial funding from Pope Clement VIII. Despite loans and a tax on wine introduced from 1608, the work only continued slowly due to economic problems, whereupon Cardinal Bishop Mariano Pierbenedetti proposed to the community in 1608 to complete the work as it was then and to roof the building. The first mass could then be celebrated in the new cathedral in 1610. After further work , Cardinal Bishop Fausto Poli consecrated the cathedral to the Apostle Peter in 1636 . In 1698 the facade was completed by the architect Jerome Fontana.
During the air raids on Italy on September 8, 1943, the entire city was badly damaged by the Allied bombardment of Frascati, the choir and the organ of the church were destroyed. The reconstruction was completed in 1949. The roof of the cathedral was restored in 1965 and the facade in 2002. On March 1, 1975, Pope Paul VI. the cathedral the title of minor basilica . Pope Benedict XVI visited the Cathedral Basilica in 2012 and celebrated mass in St. Peter's Square.
architecture
St. Peter's Basilica is located in the old town of Frascati on St. Peter's Square. The floor plan of the three-nave cathedral is formed by a Greek cross with a square apse that protrudes from the lower end of the nave. The length of the church is 42.3 meters, the roof has a height of 21.8 meters. The 32.1 meter wide facade was built with Tuscolana stone from the quarries of Monte Porzio Catone near Frascati and with travertine from Tivoli . It is flanked by two bell towers, each with a clock on the front; while the clock of the bell tower on the right side shows twelve hours, the clock of the bell tower on the left side has a clock face with six hours.
The facade is divided into two floors, overlaid by a marble cornice supported in the lower band by four Tuscan half-columns in the center and two pairs of Tuscan parasteons on the sides. Below, alternating with the three portals, there are four niches which, from the left, the statues of St. Sebastian (by Jerome Gramignoli), St. Jacob the Younger (by Giuseppe Napolioni), St. Philip the Apostle (by Vincenzo Felici) and Presenting St. Rocco (by Pietro Maiuri). Above the central portal is a marble relief showing Jesus berating Peter for his lack of faith, a work by Bernardino Cametti. The statues of St. Peter, left, and St. Paul, right, both works by Andrea Fucigna, stand in niches in the upper band.
inner space
The interior was originally entirely frescoed, but after the 1943 bombings it was restored in a simple ivory shade without any ornamentation. The roof of the two arms of the transept and the nave has barrel vaults. The chancel, modified after the Second Vatican Council, occupies the entire apse, which is covered with a mirror vault; in the middle is the marble altar. The retable comes from a baroque altar framed between two Corinthian columns and shows a relief with the handover of the keys to Peter, created in 1612 by the Florentine sculptor Pompeo Ferrucci. Below is the bishop's chair.
literature
- Leonello Razza: La Basilica Cattedrale di Frascati . Frascati 1979 ed.Associazione Tuscolana Amici di Frascati.
- Luigi Devoti: Frescati-Frascata-Frascati , Velletri, Edizioni tra 8 & 9, 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ex cattedrale S. Maria in Vivario on gcatholic.org
- ↑ a b c Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo on beweb.chiesacattolica.it (Italian)
- ^ Basilica Cattedrale di S. Pietro Apostolo on gcatholic.org
- ↑ Vatican Information Services, Bulletin of May 3, 2012, VISnews120503
Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 27.3 " N , 12 ° 40 ′ 53.7" E