Name: Church of Saint Francis of Paola
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Felice Giordano

July 26, 2023

Church of S. Francesco di Paola, former Convent of the Minims: According to the Cremona source, 16 years after the saint's death, two minims were present in Salemi and in 1529 they obtained the concession of the lands around an ancient church dedicated to S. Domenica, located in the district known as "Serrone". Thanks to the alms of the Confraternity of S. Lucia which by their will wanted to grant the Friars their Church on the condition that they had to keep the statues of the Virgin Lucia and S. Agata at the main altar.

The Minims built their convent around the year 1559, under this church they built two large crypts, one for the confrati of S. Lucia and the other for the friars.

In 1757 the church was rebuilt with a more modern taste, an ancient bust of the saint can be seen from this period. In the 1600s this church was remembered under the name of S. Francesco di Paola and a great veneration for this saint was to spread.

At the High Altar (after the discovery near the territory of the Church), in the center between the two statues, the friars placed this statue of the Madonna del Salso.

Due to the earthquake of '68 the church was razed to the ground and by the will of the then parish priest and the faithful devoted to the saint it was rebuilt from the foundations, on the main altar we find a crucifix that was once placed in one of the chapels of the ancient church, in the first right altar the statue of the Madonna del Carmine, once located in his church, in the second right the altar of S. Francesco di Paola with a beautiful wooden statue, at the base a marble slab from 1620.

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Location: Salemi, Trapani, Sicily, Italy

Church of Saint Francis of Paola

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