FOUNDATION DATE: 1597 ARCHITECTURE: It has a hall structure with barrel vaults HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION: From 1610 to 1623 it was granted for use to the Fathers of the Third Order of St. Francis led by Father Master Frà Francesco Lo Bello delegated by Father master Frà Cherubino Montifredi, Provincial of the order. In 1623 the friars moved to the new convent they had founded in the meantime (S.Maria di Porto Salvo today S. Anna). It was the seat of the Confraternity of Fishermen under the title of the Precious Blood of Christ. WORKS AND AUTHORS CONTAINED: The church is frescoed with scenes of fishermen's life probably commissioned by the same brotherhood. The most prestigious work found is The Madonna della Provvidenza or The almsgiving of S. Gaetano attributable to Vincenzo La Barbera or, according to other scholars, to Giuseppe Spatafora, from the end of the century. XVI or early XVII. In addition, an early 17th-century St. Bartholomew by an unknown author, of discreet workmanship, with the apostle in the centre, to whom the church is entitled, and a frame with panels with episodes from the saint's life inside.
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