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As part of the 2011 Culture Week, the Diocesan Museum Mons. Aurelio Sorrentino, in collaboration with the Historical Diocesan Archives of Reggio Calabria, presents the recent acquisition of five new sacred silverware belonged to the Arciconfraternita dei Bianchi, one of the oldest noble associations in Reggio, and a video entitled Art and History of the ancient confratos
Two precious chalices, a pyx, a monstrance and a tabernacle door, the work of Mexican and Neapolitan silversmiths active between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, have been entrusted to the Museum by the Prior of the Archconfraternity Fra’ Antonio Nesci, restored on the occasion by the technicians of the Laboratory of restoration of the Archaeological Superintendence of Calabria, to be exhibited along the museum path, in the
The video illustrates works and archive documents, some of which are on display, illustrating the history of the ancient Confraternity Reggins of Jesus and Mary, Saints Crispino and Crispiniano, of St. Eligio, of the Immaculate Confraternity in the church of St. Annunziata, of the Blessed Sacrament in the Cathedral and, in particular, of the Archconfraternity of the Whites founded by Paul III
The life and activity of the noble Reggiino association and the history of the Church of the Blood of Christ emerge from notarial deeds, instances, concessions, verbals, reports, rules of association, memories and relations of the Prior, pastoral visits that testify to the events from the origins to the present day.
The event was curated by Roberta Filardi and Rosanna Fiore, art history lecturers, and by Lucia Lojacono and Maria Pia Mazzitelli, respectively responsible for the Museum and the Diocesan Historical Archive.
Thursday, April 14th at 17:30 p. m., the inauguration of the exhibition will be preceded by the presentation of the video, in the presence of Archbishop Vittorio Mondello, in the Salone Mons. Giovanni Ferro in Archbishopric and, to follow, in the rooms of the Diocesan Museum.
