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- Place Types Church
- Address Via Alessandro Volta, 9, 95049 Vizzini CT, Italy
- Coordinate 37.1618814,14.7490171
- Website Unknown
- Rating 5
- Compound Code 5P6X+QJ Vizzini, Province of Catania, Italy
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The church of S. Teresa is mainly remembered because it was elected by the great master of Verismo Giovanni Verga as theater of the "Cavalleria Rusticana". For this reason, today is a tourist destination.
In ancient times it was dedicated to SS souls. del Purgatorio (from which the area still takes its name), then became, for the period in which the Mass was celebrated. Jesuits (1635), Maria SS. of Consolation.
Subsequently, at the behest of the Benedictine nuns, it was dedicated to Saint Teresa of Avila.
The history of this church is connected to that of the adjacent monastery of the Carmelite order Scalzo. In fact in 1645 it was used as a Conservatory of the Virgins and in 1705 it became a regular monastery of the order.
The convent suffered the fate of many Sicilian Jesuit convents: transformed into a school first and then into a hospital, with the total destruction of the church in years ranging from the end of the 1800s to the beginning of the 1900s, although this was inserted (as from existing documentation in the municipal historical archive) in a list of monumental assets to be safeguarded.
Inside the church there are valuable paintings from the late 600s, one dedicated to the Virgin Mary with the Saints and a second is the Crucifix.
There is also an eighteenth century statue of St. Teresa of Avila.
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