Trecastagni - CHIESA ANIME PURGATORIO

Trecastagni Town

Delle Anime del Purgatorio’ Church

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Old church dedicated to the Dead, with a unique aisle. At the entrance there is a nice portal and a window made of lava stone, bringing sculptured the date of 1701, and the inscription: IUDICATI SUNT MORTUI Up the inscription there is a skull between two sandglasses; besides we can read the following inscription on a marble tablet:
	CRISTIADU HIC COLITUR VOTIS ANTONIUS ABBAS LUSTRALI HINC ANIMAE SIDERA AB IGNE PETUNT
The elegant and well-proportioned tower bell, of a later period, was built over a flyover. The bigger bell dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory, was made by the Administrator Gaetano Lanzafame in 1824 and exactly on 25 of April, and the founder, Giuseppe Randazzo from Catania, to melt the metal used the furnace lit for the S. Alfio‘s bell; the smaller one dates back to 1862. In the cellars, there is a room with the tools to mummify the bodies and the Cemetery.
After the late works of restoration removing the high altar, it was brought back into use the subway of the tower bell and it was made accessible the ancient underground church in the room used for the mummification. A picturesque Crib is prepared on the occasion of Christmas in the outside place every year.