Pollena Trocchia . One of the oldest chapels Pollena had to be one of San Martino most likely located near the present location Carcavone on Monte Somma, and disappeared in the late eighteenth century after a terrible flood (almost certainly that of 1794).
Even today this area lives in a profound state of deterioration due to geological activity of two quarries that extract sand for years for use in construction. The first news we have of cappella di San Martino risalgono alla visita pastorale dell'arcivescovo di Napoli, il cardinale Carafa, del mese di agosto 1542: << Et visitando capellam Sancti Martini, extra dictam villam, repertum fuit quod est rettor abbas Fabritius Campanilis, qui postea comparuit et produxit litteras provisionis sibi facte per b.m. Donatum, episcopum Hysclanum et vicarium Neapolitanum, per quem provisum fuit de dicta capellania vacante tunc per <...> Honorati Ricca. Constat per easdem litteras subscriptas manu condam notarii Constantini Ferrarii sub anno Domini 1527, die V° mensis aprilis >>.
Della cappella di San Martino parla anche lo storico locale Ambrogino Caracciolo riportando la testimonianza di alcuni peasants, who asserrivano that the chapel was once a monastery. Caracciolo adds: <<... is the firm belief of the individual farmers who rank must be hidden there a statue of St. Martin on horseback all solid gold. This view, however, that only based on a legend, I should not have any basis >>.
In the third book of marriages of the Archives of the Parish Church of St. James the Apostle of Pollena mention is made of the chapel of San Martino to the grout. This chapel is not in any way be confused with the Carcavone having to be run by the Chapel of the Carmine fathers Carthusians had evidently San Martino also entitled to have as a reference in fact having the Carthusian monastery located near Castel Sant 'Elmo in Naples. Most likely the chapel of San Martino al Carcavone was founded by Carthusian fathers and not to exclude their stable presence giving testimony to the faith of the farmers cited by Caracciolo. If so we should conclude that the Carthusian monastery on the hill of San Martino in Naples had in the past few properties in the territory of Pollen. However, a monastic presence in St. Martin was certainly prior to 1700 in the early eighteenth century, the chapel was in fact prepared by the priest Francesco Di Leo, a native of Calabria (almost certainly of Crotone) and resident in the house San Sebastiano al Vesuvio at the home of Mrs. N. Frezzi happy.
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Taken from the book "The community of Pollena 1760 to 1819 - Notes social and religious history," Charles Silvano, printing GM 1998, pp. 120.
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