Santi Diecimila Martiri
The Church of Santi Diecimila Martiri is a secular baroque church in Palermo .
The small church, located near the Teatro Massimo in Via Francesco Raimondo, was built in the early 17th century by the association “Cavalieri Gerosolimitani” (Knights of Jerusalem), which later also appeared as the Brotherhood of Ten Thousand Martyrs (Compagnia dei Diecimila Martiri) .
In 1715 the church was rebuilt in its present form. In the 20th century it was abandoned and from then on served as a meeting room for the political party Democrazia Cristiana . The former oratory to the left of the church is now used as a residential building.
The facade is in a bad state of preservation. It is convex horizontally with a straight end, on which there is a small, three-arched structure, and decorated with palm trees and laurel, the symbols of the victorious martyrs. Above the entrance is a medallion depicting Achatius , the legendary leader of the Ten Thousand Martyrs.
literature
- Adriana Chirco: Palermo la città ritrovata. Flaccovio, Palermo 2002, ISBN 88-7758-469-6 .
- Otto Wimmer, Hartmann Melzer: Lexicon of names and saints. Nikol Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-63-5 .
Coordinates: 38 ° 7 ′ 5.3 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 26" E