“Museum, Archive, Library cultural institutes for the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Agrigento, with the collaboration of the parish communities, propose at the Mudia exhibition center in the San Lorenzo Church in Via Atenea, the exhibition itinerary with archive documents, texts in print. paintings, sculptures, jewels, silver and other precious artefacts on the cult and devotion linked to the saint most loved by Sicilians: Rosalia”.
“The exhibition-itinerary, which will be inaugurated on 12 June at 7.00 pm, offers – we read in the note – an overall vision of the cities and churches that have had and still have a strong devotion towards Santuzza. The central part of the exhibition will be dedicated to the three communities which in different ways are linked to the presence of Rosalia: Bivona, Racalmuto and S. Stefano. Works were also selected from the other communities of Aragon, Cammarata, Cianciana, Palma di Montechiaro, S. Angelo Muxaro, S. Margherita di Belice, Sciacca which have a spiritual heritage linked to the devotion to Santa Rosalia with the presence of altars, paintings, statues and relics”.
“A dynamic exhibition itinerary since the works on display are goods for worship – the document concludes – and will return to the communities of origin, even during the exhibition, on the occasion of the liturgical holiday of 4 September, leaving room for other works coming from other communities of the diocese. A map of the province will help identify the presence of churches, chapels and relics in the area and a video will project the visitor into the three places which, according to tradition, saw the historical presence of Santa Rosalia. The exhibition itinerary is a stage of the ecclesial cultural park which allows the life and faith of local communities to be networked through material and immaterial heritage”.
