{"id":92466,"date":"2024-03-20T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/monumenti\/church-of-st-lucy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T10:57:35","slug":"church-of-st-lucy","status":"publish","type":"monumento","link":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/monumenti\/church-of-st-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of St. Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Church of Saint Lucy dates back to the late sixteenth century, as recorded in documents in the archiepiscopal archives: the first mention is in 1599 in the decree of Archbishop Monsignor Sedano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From an original field shrine, which probably insisted on earlier places of worship, it became a chapel and cemetery, as evidenced by the numerous burials found under the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The structure of the church presents a single rectangular hall without apse or chapels, with a beautiful entrance portal, oval window and small bell gable resulting from eighteenth-century remodeling in the mature Baroque style, perhaps already Piedmontese. It is made of quarry tuff. The oldest architectural parts are in the Romanesque style-an indication of an earlier Byzantine building, such as the cult for St. Lucy; the major renovations date from the 17th and 18th centuries, as the wooden roofing and facade seem to reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The late 17th-century altar frieze features the symbols of the palm, book, eye, dagger, and lunar crescent. The latter would suggest the existence of an earlier cult to a Nuragic, lunar female deity also worshipped in the Punic and Roman periods. The wooden statue of the saint, restored in the late 1990s, is kept inside the church: about 85 cm tall, it depicts the martyr clad in a richly draped robe, decorated girdle and with her right hand outstretched to hold a saucer, on which were to be placed the two eyes symbolic of the saint, which are still relied on today to ask for protection for sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Near the entrance is preserved a Nuragic well that shows signs of three different construction phases: the first with a masonry technique involving the use of large ashlars; the second involving a portion of the cylindrical barrel made of pebbles; and finally the square-ringed summit part with pedarules, probably from the Roman period.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A panel of the saint by artist Angelo Pilloni is preserved on the exterior facade, while in the square of the same name is the mural depicting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">su fogadoni <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which is lit in honor of the saint on December 13 every year.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":92467,"template":"","meta":{"COMUNE":[],"note":[],"indirizzo":[],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"coordinates":[],"images":[],"adesioni":[],"footnotes":""},"monumento_tipologia":[679,691],"accessibilita":[],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"class_list":["post-92466","monumento","type-monumento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","monumento_tipologia-chiesa-en","monumento_tipologia-religione-e-culto-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/92466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/monumento"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/92466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102441,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/92466\/revisions\/102441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"monumento_tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumento_tipologia?post=92466"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita?post=92466"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita_mezzi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita_mezzi?post=92466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}