Santa Lucia Church in Zuel



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La chiesetta di Santa Lucia a Zuel

Description

The first evidence of the presence of the church of Saint Lucia dates back to 1397. Later the same is mentioned in a document of 1673 relating to the pastoral visit of Bishop Pietro Leoni.

The church was equipped with landholdings: certainly two plots, one adjacent to the building and the other, much larger, under the road to the south, which were, however, attached to the gain of St. Peter and Paul of Mareno, with the obligation to officiate a Mass on December 13 and to offer two candles.

Between 1719 and 1720 the small building was enlarged with the addition of the choir and perhaps the bell. Dating back to this expansion is the altarpiece by Mattia Grempsel which is located above the altar depicting Saint Lucia in the foreground, next to Sant'Agata.

The artist, from the Austrian city of Graz, was called with his brother, the court of the Brandolini around 1680. Other works from the ceiling and the foundations were finally implemented in 1899, during which several skeletons were found that did assume that, in ancient times, the church of Zuel was also equipped with a small cemetery.

Some donations bequests that guaranteed the celebration of Mass in all the festivities and many weekdays, bear witness to the faith and devotion of the people there are some donations and testament that the church received, thus ensuring the celebration of Mass in all holidays and in many weekdays.
From the mid-nineteenth century, however, passed away the priest who officiated at Zuel, replaced by the chaplain of Rolle, who officiated in the church of Saint Lucia, only the second and fourth Sunday of the month.
 


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