Chiesa Parrocchiale di Santa Maria e Santi Filippo e Giacomo

Sweet environment

CATHEDRAL of SANDRIGO: on the side of the churchyard of the historic Archpriest Church, the current neo-Renaissance bell tower, one of the highest in the Veneto, was already raised, Benedict in the early 1900s by Cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, and then Pope Saint Pius X, who - very human paradox - knew the collapse of the gigantic bell tower of his Metropolitan Cathedral, the Basilica of San Marco Evangelista in Venice. It was the Bishop of Vicenza, Monsignor Antonio Feruglio, who obtained from Cardinal Sarto, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Veneto, to come to Sandrigo, to bless the high Bell Tower. The new bell tower was splendid in itself, but too disproportionate in excess of the vast Baroque Archpriest. The increasingly populous Parish of Sandrigo, however, needed a much larger Church. The problem, a very big problem, immediately came to the attention of the new Archpriest, the very famous and truly "great" Monsignor Giuseppe Arena. The heads of the families agreed with Monsignor Archpriest that its demolition and the construction of a building worthy of a large cathedral would be preferable to a further enlargement of the historic church. Everything was demolished, keeping only the eighteenth-century facade which was dismantled and reassembled in a more rearward position, so as to create a vast churchyard, the current one, suitable for a temple that would have been of considerable size. The beautiful Baroque façade was joined by a new Latin cross "body", with a single very spacious nave, with a large and high dome, the cap, covered with copper that has long since assumed the green color that distinguishes it from afar: a dome that marks the intersection between the great longitudinal nave and the transept with very short arms. All in a neoclassical style, with an abundance of decorations. Due to its importance - an ancient parish church named after the Mother of God and the Holy Apostles Philip and James the "Minor" - and its very considerable size, the new Archpriest of Sandrigo rightly deserved it from the Bishop of Vicenza, to which it belongs "ab immemorabili" the Pieve Sandricense, the title of DUOMO. Absolutely to be seen together with the Parish Church of nearby Lupia, a fifteenth-century masterpiece of the purest Lombard Renaissance, and the nearby and grandiose and beautiful BREGANZE DUOMO, whose enormous BELL, with a height of 90 meters, is the highest religious structure of the Venetian Prealps and the third highest bell tower in Veneto, after that of the Patriarchal Metropolitan Cathedral of San Marco of Venice (99-100 meters) and that of the Cathedral of Santa Sofia di Lendinara, Diocese of Adria-Rovigo, which extends for 97 meters , including the huge Angel Anemometer on the terminal dome of the extraordinary Tower, so as to "impose itself" significantly on the very high (56 meters) Baroque bell tower of the nearby Abbey Cathedral Basilica and Sanctuary of the Beata Maria Vergine del Pilastrello, illustrious Cenobio, still in full activity, of the Congregation of Olivetan Benedictine Monks. The current Archpriest of Sandrigo, and at the same time Archpriest-Parish Priest of the small hamlets of Lupia and Ancignano, is the Most Rev. Monsignor Giovanni Sandona ', who succeeded Mons. Venanzio Rigoni.

Very beautiful

Wonderful Duomo, with valuable works of art

Respectful people especially in this period of coronavirus