Episcopal
Museum San Gerardo Majella
The
museum gathers a vast assortment of plaques: from the Episcopal coat of
arms to the monolithic architectural structures made out of granite or
stones from Irpinia.
Columns’ bases and capitals demonstrate the evidence of a respectable past;
and more displays of tombstones engraved with phrases in Latin and Osco, and
ceramic and metal exhibits.
The
impressive Library, adjacent to the Museum, gathers about nine thousand
volumes, its heritage immensely enriched by the presence of thirty-six tomes
from the 1500, countless ones from the 1600 and 108 parchments of
high-medieval period.
The
famous triptych credited to Antoniazzo da Romano is kept in the same area,
made to order by Ferrante I D’Aragona in the Fifteenth century.
Lacedonia’s Episcopal Building rests, restored after 1930’s earthquake, on
the New Episcopal one that might have already been there before the 1500;
the building was restored by Bishop De Dura (1500- 1538, so it’s written on
Palmese’s manuscript, kept in the Episcopal Archives).
The Old
Episcopal Building, not to be confused with the above-mentioned New,
was located in Vico S. Nicola during the first centuries of the dioceses.
The
remaining part of the building, whose front faces Piazza De Sanctis, was
widened and used as a Seminary in 1557 { Palmese page 2A}.
Here
San Gerardo Majella lived for three years (1741-1744) as Bishop Alini’s
servant. |
