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The church of San Giacomo di Pollena: a heritage that belongs to all

The building the present church dedicated to St. James the Apostle of Pollena was due to some priests who collected the money needed and followed the work. And if you normally work each devotes to the memory of posterity the name of its architect or who has commissioned a peculiarity of the church of San Giacomo is that thanks to some documents kept at the Diocesan Archives in Naples, we also know the names of individual workers who fabricated their own hands a temple that for some centuries has been the symbol of religious and social community.

The Acts of the pastoral visit made by Cardinal Luigi Ruffo Scilla in 1818, we learn that it was Don Andrea Ilardo (pastor 1760 to 1775) to collect the first offers, and to begin to work on the construction of the church was Don Filippo Coppola (pastor from 1775 to 1785). During the works of those who provide their name is the teacher "gilders" Lorenzo D'Ambrosio, and teachers "plasterers" Antonio and Giuseppe Vignati. For the realization of the high altar was called the sculptor Domenico Tucci, who created - a design engineer John Piscicelli - are the two holy water fonts bardiglio placed on either side of the entrance to the Church. After the blessing of the church, in October 1787, the then parish priest Francesco Rossi, the work continued until at least 1794. From a written

of Rossi who was accountable for their actions and the money spent by the Archbishop of Naples, we know that around 1790 a worker of the place, named Antonio Ascione, worked "in making stone quarry lapillus and deployable for the factories of the Church" . The material was mined from a quarry located in a town called Pollena de Bonati. From this quarry, then, the material was transported to the church being built by a trooper of the country named Vincenzo Busiello. Another worker, Giuseppe De Luca, cut and prepared the stones "sweet."

work to end the church had to continue until at least 1794 in an archbishop's decree of 19 October 1793 reads that a local resident, Vito Antonio Sannino, penance was prescribed for a job for five months at the yard of the church of San Giacomo. At Sannino, says the decree, was asked this penance because he married his first-degree relative.

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More news and information about the church of St. James the Apostle of Pollena can be found on the volume "The community of Pollena 1760 to 1819 - Notes on social and religious history" of Carla Silva, printing GM 1998, pp. 120.