Cappella Valerio-Longo – Wikipedia

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The Other Valerio-Longo It is a faulty chapel of Modugno (BA).
Dedicated to San Francesco da Paola, it is annexed to Palazzo Valerio-Longo, in via Conte Rocco Stella.

The image of the Madonna Addolorata and the appearance of the X March

In this church an image of the Addolorata Madonna was kept. This image is no longer present in the church as, during the events of 10 March 1799, the Jesuit father Paolo Piccirillo da Putignano Institutant and educator of Nicola Longo and residing in the Longo house, in seeing the coastal and heartbroken family for a predictable disaster for The Modugnese people gathered the Longo to pray around that image. Subsequently the image was brought by the Piccirillo to the nearby convent of the Monacelle, whose nuns also prayed around that image. Finally one of them, Sister Colomba Maria Centola from Bitonto mounted on the bell tower and entrusting the wind to the wind that image exclaimed: ” To you Maria I entrust this people, you are the mother of all of us “. The invoked patronage did not fail and by evening the Sanfedist enemy was defeated. Regret from all the Modugnese people, in the following year on March 4, 1800, Father Piccirillo suddenly spiracked Longo and was buried in this chapel [first] .

The abbot Giovanni Battista Valerio and Germano Francesco Paolo Valerio having built a church in 1705 at a corner of the building, with a notarial act of the year 1710 constituted one Foundation of the Gentilizia chapel of his family by providing her with thirty hectares of rustic funds with the obligation to celebrate 100 masses a year and appointed to enjoy himself first and secondly the son priest of his brother and all the children priest in male descent, everything This to devotion of St. Francis da Paola in whose church an image was venerated.

The Valerio family extinct, the church passed to the Longo family who took place in 1787, with the purchase of the palace attached to the chapel.

The church, privately owned, currently belongs to the Longo de Bellis family of Rutigliano.

The small door of the chapel is surmounted by a broken triangular tympanum that reports the registration in Latin: 1705 – the Virgin’s praise raised from the sophisticated – Valeriis whose prosperity [2] (“In the honors of the Virgin the De Monte family erected this chapel in 1705 for the use of the Valerio family”) [3] .

Under the inscription, on the architrave of the portal replaced at the end of the eighteenth century, the Longo’s noble coat of arms is reported, while inside the church there is that of the Valerio.
In the middle of the broken eardrum there is a niche [3] where until the early twentieth century a statuette of San Francesco da Paola in the early eighteenth century was figure, now preserved by the Longo family.

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The church preserves the polychrome marble altar of the early eighteenth century and the marble funeral monument of 1877 dedicated to the doctor Nicola Longo. In the crypt, beyond the aforementioned Nicola, several members of the Longo families, Cesena of Varese Ligure, the judge of Vinciaturo, Risotti and Fortunato of Giffoni are buried.

  1. ^ Carlo Longo de Bellis- Private Archive Longo Family
  2. ^ Nicola Milano, Browsing through Modugno , Bari, reprint edited by Levante, 1997, p. 104.
  3. ^ a b A. GERRONO, N. COUNTRY, M. Pelt (care of), Modugno. Tourist-cultural guide , Modugno, Pro Loco association of Modugno, 2006, p. 124.
  • Nicola Milano, Browsing through Modugno , Bari, reprint edited by Levante, 1997, p. 104.
  • A. GERRONO, N. COUNTRY, M. Pelt (care of), Modugno. Tourist-cultural guide , Modugno, Pro Loco association of Modugno, 2006, p. 124.
  • Carlo Longo de Bellis- Private Archive Longo Family

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