{"id":1392,"date":"2026-06-23T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/?page_id=1392"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:51:10","slug":"chiesa-di-san-rocco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/en\/chiesa-di-san-rocco\/","title":{"rendered":"San Rocco Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"translation-block\">The origins of the Church of San Rocco coincide with the introduction of his cult in Scilla.<br>\nBetween the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth century, after surviving a terrible\nplague epidemic, the people of Scilla, thanks to their commercial relations with Venice, became aware of the\npresence in the Venetian city of the mortal remains of Saint Roch, the patron saint against the plague, identifying\nhim as the intercessor who had saved Scilla from the dreadful scourge.<br>\nIt was precisely this conviction that led the people of Scilla to introduce the cult of the saint by building a church\nin his honor on the site where the patronal church still stands today.<br>\nThe oldest documents attesting to the existence of the Church of San Rocco in Scilla are the records written by\nMonsignor Annibale D\u2019Afflitto, Archbishop of Reggio, relating to his first pastoral visit to the diocese in 1594,\nwhen, among other churches, he visited that of San Rocco.<br>\nA confraternity dedicated to the saint was also present there: \u201cest Confraternitas sub vocabulo S. Rochi\u201d.<br>\nThe records contain no expressions such as nuper fundata or nuper erecta, which were used to indicate recently\nbuilt churches. Furthermore, thanks to these same records, we know that at the time the priest Antonio\nRomano served as chaplain of both the church and the confraternity.<br>\nIn 1738 work began on the construction of a new church, which was completed in 1751.<br>\nDevotion to the patron saint grew so greatly that, beginning in 1862, the people of Scilla decided to demolish\nalmost half of the old church, enlarging it and giving it more elegant architectural forms, decorating it with\nstuccoes and marbles.<br>\nAt dawn on 28 December 1908, a terrible earthquake struck, among other buildings, the beloved patronal church,\ndestroying its fa\u00e7ade and roof.<br>\nThe apse and perimeter walls remained standing, and the building was hastily restored by reconstructing the\nroof entirely in wood and the fa\u00e7ade, greatly lowered in height, in cement, lime, and wood, with two small bell\ntowers, one of which had a clock on the main fa\u00e7ade.\nBy the mid-1970s, however, the structure was in poor condition, and it became clear that restoration and reconstruction\nwere necessary.<br>\nIn 1973 a fundraising committee was established in Port Chester among the people of Scilla living there, and in\n1974 another was created in Scilla itself. The archpriest at the time was Don Andrea Cassone, and the mayor\nwas Professor Giuseppe Vita.<br>\nA third committee was later formed in Toronto, Canada.\nThe committee\u2019s task was to support and collaborate fully with the technical office of the Archdiocesan Curia,\nwhile also applying political pressure to obtain funding and overcome bureaucratic difficulties with government\noffices (Civil Engineering Department, Public Works Authority, and Ministry of Public Works). But let us take a\nstep back.<br>\nIn 1953, the archpriest of the time, Santo Bergamo, submitted a claim for war damages through the Curia\u2019s\ntechnical office, supported by an assessment estimating the required amount at 10,000 lire.\nSubsequently, this sum, deemed insufficient for the project, was increased in 1976 to 68 million lire by the Civil\nEngineering Department following an inspection that revealed the worsening condition of the building over\ntime.<br>\nThe following year (1977), Archbishop Monsignor Ferro proposed reallocating funds from other churches within\nthe diocese in the amount of 37 million lire, bringing the total available funds to 105 million.<br>\nThe work was entrusted by the Archdiocesan Curia to the Pizzonia company, which began construction on 8\nJuly 1980.<br>\nThe turning point came with the appointment of Don Mimmo Marturano as Archpriest of Scilla in 1983.<br>\nAfter the Pizzonia company went bankrupt, the work was entrusted to the Scilla-based firm Socedil of Filippo\nMartello. Thanks to a public fundraising campaign, renewed contacts with overseas committees and government\noffices, constant dissemination of information through the parish bulletin, and the generosity of the people,\nthe work proceeded rapidly.<br>\nOn 16 August 1990, in the presence of the principal civil and military authorities, His Excellency Monsignor\nAurelio Sorrentino consecrated the new Eucharistic Altar, and the Church of San Rocco was reopened for worship.<br>\nToday the church stands in all its splendor.<br>\nThe magnificent wooden entrance door was created by the Foc\u00e0 brothers in 1885.<br>\nThe structure, built in the Neoclassical style, consists of a single nave.<br>\nOn either side of the entrance door are placed two of the four large paintings that once belonged to the Convent\nof the Observant Fathers, destroyed in 1783.<br>\nThe side walls are divided into eight large niches. Starting from the entrance, the first two contain the side\naccess doors; the four central niches house four side altars; and the last two contain the confessional on the\nright and the organ on the left.<br>\nMounted on the pilasters are the fourteen seventeenth-century Stations of the Cross paintings.\nThe nave ceiling, entirely rebuilt during the restoration works, is barrel-vaulted and decorated following the\nstyle of the original presbytery ceiling.<br>\nIt contains four painted roundels depicting the patron saints of churches that once stood in the area surrounding\nthe present patronal church: Saint George, Saint Sebastian, Saint Marcellinus, and Saint Aloysius Gonzaga.<br>\nOne of the four side altars contains, within a stucco-decorated niche, a small wooden statue of the Immaculate\nVirgin.<br>\nThe statue can be attributed to the eighteenth-century Neapolitan artistic tradition and, adorned with a silver\ncrown and halo of stars, wears a wig made of real hair.<br>\nThe floor, made of polychrome marble, is richly decorated with floral motifs interspersed with large rosettes.<br>\nThe presbytery, raised two steps above the nave, contains on the left a marble ambo featuring finely decorated\nbalustrades on its two sides.<br>\nAt the center stands the Eucharistic Altar, whose bronze frontal high-relief depicting the Last Supper was created\nin 1990 by Carmelo Barbaro.<br>\nOn either side of the presbytery are the other two large paintings that once belonged to the Convent of the\nObservant Fathers.<br>\nIn the background stands the majestic high altar (1872).\nEntirely made of marble and in the Neoclassical style, it is surmounted by the niche housing the ancient marble\nstatue of Saint Roch, dating to the first half of the sixteenth century and attributed to the artist Giovan Battista\nMazzolo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><i>Dottor Rocco Panuccio<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-custom fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span\" style=\"--button_accent_color:#f20800;--button_border_color:#2038b2;--button_accent_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_border_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_bottom_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_text_transform:none;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/en\/san-rocco-protettore-e-patrono-di-scilla\/\"><i class=\"fa-angle-double-right fas awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Next page: 89. 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