Church of St. Joseph

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beautiful and large church very decorated and gorgeous

Church of San Giuseppe, small but with the name of a great saint.

The current building is the result of the reconstruction in 1719 of a pre-existing structure, which took place by Onofrio De Sanda, thanks to the alms of the faithful. The church was consecrated by Domenico Morelli in 1756. Inside there are fine marble altars and some wooden devotional statues are preserved, including the statues of San Giuseppe, San Gregorio Vescovo and San Nicolò da Bari. four chapels open, built on the occasion of the renovation by the Sculco, Lucifero, Gallucci and Zurlo families. Of particular value, in the Gailuccio-Zurlo chapel, there is a wooden crucifix of Neapolitan workmanship, carved in the eighteenth century. The interior of the church is decorated with stuccos.

Small church in the historic center of Crotone not always open to the public, but only in conjunction with religious services. The current building is the result of the reconstruction of a pre-existing structure in 1719, which took place thanks to the deacon Onofrio De Sanda, who belonged to an old city family of master carpenters, a group of carpenters from the city, and thanks to the alms of the faithful. The church is dedicated to San Giuseppe, protector of carpenters. It then housed the Confraternity of Maria Addolorata and was consecrated in 1756 by Domenico Morelli. The entrance portal in carved tuff is valuable.

Going up from via Risorgimento, your gaze crosses the Church of San Giuseppe, built in the eighteenth century, and consecrated by the Bishop of Strongoli Domenico Morelli (in ancient times Strongoli was a bishopric). The Church is well maintained, with a wooden door, and on the sides it is possible to see the domes, of Byzantine style, which are located on the side chapels. The facade is of late Baroque style, and the beauty of the Church is told by the reconstruction carried out in the early 1800s, by the will of the deacon Onofrio De Sanda and, right on the architrave, the phrase "DOM / AD DIVO JOSEPHO 1719 / CURA is carved. HONUPHRII DE SANDA / TEMPLUM PIORUM AELEMOSINIS ERECTUM. Dedicated to St. Joseph, patron saint of the family and carpenters, by the will of a group of "shipwrights or carpenters" who, in the spring of the same year, ask the bishop for permission to build a church dedicated to their patron St. Joseph . the sacred building preserves its ancient charm, with a white marble altar that shines in the silence of the ancient church of San Giuseppe di Crotone. There are four side chapels, containing the statues of San Gregorio and San Nicolò di Bari above the marble altars, and the statue of San Giuseppe is located in the central nave. In one of the chapels there is the fresco of San Michele Arcangelo, where next to it there is a modern painting depicting the patron saint of Crotone, San Dionigi. While in the Gallucci-Zurlo chapel, there is a particular wooden crucifix, which was carved in the 18th century. This is how the Crotone Historical Archive writes: The four noble chapels belong to four patrician families from Crotone: Ayerbis Aragona della Grotteria, extinct, Lucifer, Galluccio, Sculco. In the Sculco chapel, two marbles with Latin inscriptions are embedded laterally in the wall. The history of the Church of San Giuseppe in Crotone: In 1807 the church of San Giuseppe became the seat of the congregation of the nobles known as Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori or dell’Addolorata. The brothers brought the painting depicting Our Lady of Sorrows to the new location, placing it above the main altar. Also in these years a new chapel with an altar dedicated to San Francesco di Paola was built by the Galluccio family. Around the end of the nineteenth century, the Soda family built an altar in the Gallucci chapel, where the beautiful wooden crucifix was placed, now housed in the church of the Immaculate Conception. Along the walls of the central nave there are some eighteenth-century paintings, respectively on the right one there is "The Adoration of the Magi" and on the left the "Circumcision". The walls of the presbytery are also adorned with 18th-century paintings depicting "The Adoration of the Shepherds" and "The Presentation of Mary in the Temple". Leaving the church, the facade has a slightly raised pediment and underlying decorations, the sandstone portal is framed by finely decorated pilasters and capitals surmounted by a projecting architrave. The front is completed by a large window with a stucco frame. On the sides, two of the four "broken" chapels are visible, characterized by covered domes and decorated with four concentric circles of tiles. The cylindrical bell tower is barely visible on the long left façade, on the back. (Taken from the CiaoCrotone website)