As will be remembered, it was aggregated with other parish benefices of the diocese to the seminary of Sora since June 1569 for the support of the pious institute. From the inventory of the real estate of this church, compiled in August 1619 by Fr Giulio Annichino, archpriest of Settefrati, and transcribed in the “Green Book” of the diocesan archives, we learn for the first time [...].
There were many. We have a first hint of this during the provostship of Fr Federico de Manlion (...l530-l534); then a second, more precise hint in 1574 by Prudenzio di Alvito, who tells us that among those many relics there was also a piece of the wood of the cross. The bishop of Sora Giovannelli (1609-1632), convinced and [...]
In the “Relazione familiare” (family report) on the State of Alvito, made in 1595 to Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio of Como, who was about to take possession of the feud from Como, the anonymous writer of the document also mentions the church of the Madonna di Canneto. In fact, speaking of the river Melfa, he says: «This river has its source above Picinisco five miles in [...].
Prudentius, a historian from Alvito, as far as we know, is the first writer from the Comino Valley to speak of the Canneto Valley and the church dedicated to the Virgin, placed there. Describing the town of Settefrati, in whose territory the sanctuary has always stood, he says: “The mountains are very fine with [...].
On 15 July 1563, with the decree “Cun adolescentum”, the Council of Trent decreed that the individual cathedral, metropolitan and other major churches, depending on the means and size of the diocese, should religiously educate and instruct in ecclesiastical disciplines a certain number of children to be held in a “college”, located in the same churches [...].
The first mention of the church of S. Maria di Canneto, as a building, is found in the collective letter “Deum placare” of 25 November 1475, the contents of which are well known. In it, the two cardinals of S.R.C., Bartolomeo Roverella and Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II, at the request of the commendatory abbot of Canneto, Francesco de [...].
Even the transverse hall, the transept, which enlarged and extended the primitive temple of Our Lady, must have been the work of the indefatigable Fr. Federico De Manlion, both because in 1693, as we shall see, it already existed, and because in the archival sources there is no mention of this important building increase of the ancient sanctuary. This new construction, which was added to the [...]
The years indicated are those of the provostship of d. Federico De Manlion, a Spanish priest, in the church of S. Maria di Canneto. But in the history of the sanctuary we find him more precisely in the years 1530-1533, at the end of his abbacy, when old and ill in his house in Settefrati, he was deceived by those in charge of Montecassino [...].
When in July 1978, about two months before the start of the general renovation of the Sanctuary, the Rome-based Central Commission for Sacred Art came to Canneto for an inspection of the old complex in order to authorise its demolition, in agreement with the other bodies in charge of environmental protection, a high prelate at the time of the [...].
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Summer 2021 in the Comino Valley
The post-Covid summer promises to be hot in the Comino Valley. Despite the many difficulties we all know about, the valley's municipalities have managed to organise numerous events for a summer full of art, beautiful emotions and light-heartedness. Here are the main events in the Comino Valley for summer 2021. Dates may be subject to change. July/August - San [...]