Palmi Cathedral
The Cathedral of San Nicola in Palmi is the co- cathedral of the Diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi in the Italian region of Calabria .
history
There are no precise reports on the age of the church. It was first mentioned between 1310 and 1311. Before that, St. Nicholas was the only church in town. In 1532 the church was mentioned again in documents. In 1586 it was described as the Church of the St. Nicholas Brothers near the city wall. In 1664 the Brotherhood of Purgatory was founded there.
On August 25, 1741, the Bishop of Miletus, Marcello Filomarini, was raised after receiving a bull from Pope Benedict XIII. St. Nikola to the collegiate church . The church, destroyed by an earthquake on February 5, 1783, was rebuilt from 1740 to 1743; in March 1786 there were expansions and modifications. After rebuilding after an earthquake, St. Nikola suffered severe damage in the earthquake of 1908, so that the building was demolished in 1909.
The current building was consecrated in 1932 and consecrated to the Virgin Mary under the invocation of the Virgin of the Holy Letter . In 1956 the clock tower was completed. On June 10, 1979, with the decree Quo aptius of the Italian Bishops' Conference, the territories of some dioceses were redefined, and the diocese of Oppido-Mamertina became the diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi , with St. Nicholas as the co-cathedral of the diocese.
building
The facade of the neo-Romanesque building is equipped with a canopy, veranda and a small portico on four columns. On the left is the church bell tower.
The three-aisled hall rises above the floor plan of a Latin cross, adjoining two apse chapels, which are consecrated to the city saint St. Nicholas and the Sacred Heart of Jesus . There is an octagonal windowless dome above the ceiling.
On the walls of the corridors there are depictions of St. Joseph with the Child Jesus (1892), a painting by Francis of Assisi in Adoration of the Cross (1932), a wooden statue of St. Joseph with the baby Jesus and a depiction of Our Lady taken into heaven, both from the 18th century.
On the marble main altar is the icon of the Virgin of the Holy Letter with Child from 1774. In a recently built chapel there is a shrine with the relic of a hair of the Virgin Mary.
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literature
- Giovan Battista Pacichelli, The Kingdom of Naples in Perspective , 1702;
- Annibale Riccò, E. Camerana, Mario Baratta, Giovanni Di Stevano, Committee in charge of studies by the Royal Government for the study of the earthquake of November 16, 1894 in Calabria and Sicily , ed. Tipografia nazionale de G. Bertero e c., 1907 ;
- Antonio De Salvo, Research and Historical Studies in Palmi, Seminara and Gioia Tauro , ed. Lopresti, 1889;
Coordinates: 38 ° 21 ′ 34.5 " N , 15 ° 50 ′ 55.7" E