San Carlo Borromeo (San Marzano di San Giuseppe)

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The Church of San Carlo Borromeo

The church of San Carlo Borromeo is located on Corso Umberto I in the Italian community of San Marzano di San Giuseppe in Apulia, founded by Arbëresh .

prehistory

On July 27, 1530, the royal fiefdom of San Marzano was sold by the Viceroy of Naples , Cardinal Pompeo Colonna , to the locator and captain of Albanian origin, Demetrio Capuzzimati (Italian surname, which means 'big shoe' in Albanian) for 700 ducats with the condition to settle the country with its people. Capuzzimati had taken part in the Italian wars against Francis I of France .

Immediately after the arrival of the Albanians , Epiroten and Schiavoni , every family endeavored to build a house (now in Via Giorgio Castriota). Where the church of San Carlo Borromeo stands today, the church of Saint Paraskeva was built according to Greek custom ("more graeco") facing the cardinal direction east-west with the altar in the east and the entrance in the west. In the Byzantine tradition, the apse is always towards the east, where the sun rises, symbolizing the kingdom of light that represents the Lord God.

history

Chiesa San Carlo Borromeo before 1928

In 1622, the Archbishop of Taranto , Antonio D'Aquino, initiated the process of Latinization of religion with the official decree of repression of the Greco-Byzantine rite , which accelerated the disappearance of Balkan traditions and customs. After this suppression decree, the new church was built and dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo on part of the area where the church of Saint Paraskeva had previously stood .

From the assessment of the Tavolario Salvatore Pinto of San Marzano on December 3, 1630, it emerges that in the middle of the Casale stood the mother church of St. Carlo Borromeo, which corresponded to the rites of the Holy Church .

Church interior

The church with a nave , a flat roof and good design was equipped with a baptismal font, a bell and the sacrament of the altar . In a niche there was a chapel with an icon of San Carlo Borromeo. Opposite this chapel was the chapel with a painting of the Virgin Mary of the Rosary . At that time, an archpriest and a cleric celebrated in the church who lived on a small salary paid by the “Università Tarent”.

Scipione Paterno, the Tavolario , who visited San Marzano on July 8, 1633, described the single-nave mother church of San Carlo Borromeo with rich furnishings, choir, pulpit and baptismal font.

Today the church has a rectangular structure and is divided into three aisles by slender columns that stand on plinths. The interior has a flat vault, the presbytery a dome .

In the 20th century, the church underwent major renovations. In 1928 the original, typical oriental bell tower was doubled. After a memorial plaque the dilapidated church was renovated and on 28 October 1928 by Orazio Mazzella, archbishop of Taranto consecrated . In 1939 the five towers of the facade were demolished. The main altar, which was renewed in 1978 and has since stood in the axis of the main entrance, was consecrated on December 4th of that year by Guglielmo Motolese, Archbishop of Taranto. A new altar was consecrated after restoration work on March 19, 2017 by Monsignor Filippo Santoro, Archbishop of Taranto.

  • The Church of San Carlo Borromeo

  • The interior

  • High altar with the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (ceramic high relief)

  • Painting with San Carlo Borromeo

  • Chapel with baptismal font

  • Statue of Saint Joseph

literature

  • Pietro Dalena: Insediamenti albanesi nel territorio di Taranto (Secc. 15-16): realtà storica e mito storiografico . In: Miscellanea di Studi Storici-Università della Calabria . Centro editoriale librario Università della Calabria, Vol. II, 1989, pp. 36-104 (Italian, vatrarberesh.it [PDF]).
  • Vincenza Musardo Talò: San Carlo Borromeo: la santita nel sociale . Tiemme Industria Grafica, Manduria 2010 (Italian, limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Church of San Carlo Borromeo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Technicians (engineers and architects) who were instructed in the Kingdom of Naples to draw up precise maps of the area with road signs, buildings and their owners.
  2. ↑ Casale (plural casali ) is the Italian name for a house or a group of houses in the country.
  3. ↑ in southern Italy from 1266 to 1807 the name for a more or less independent administrative unit

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marisa Margherita: San Marzano di San Giuseppe, comunità Arbëresh. (PDF) Vatrarberesh.it, p. 5 , accessed on March 12, 2017 (Italian).
  2. ^ San Marzano di San Giuseppe, anima arbereshe. Salentoacolory.it, accessed March 9, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ^ Cenni storici. (PDF) Sanmarzano-ta.gov.it, p. 5 , accessed on July 21, 2018 (Italian).
  4. ^ San Marzano di San Giuseppe (TA) Shen Marcani. arbitalia.it, accessed March 8, 2017 (Italian).
  5. ^ Cenni storici, p. 6
  6. ↑ Vincenzo Bruno, Antonio Trupo, p. 7
  7. ↑ Vincenza Musardo Talò, p. 30
  8. ^ Cenni storici. (PDF) Sanmarzano-ta.gov.it, p. 4 , accessed on July 18, 2018 (Italian).
  9. ^ Chiesa San Carlo Borromeo. Prolocomarciana.it, accessed April 13, 2017 (Italian).
  10. ^ Pietro Dalena; P. 64

Coordinates: 40 ° 27 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 17 ° 30 ′ 19.4 ″  E