Santuario di San Giuseppe

Works still

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It has been several years since the famous earthquake but the sanctuary is still partly closed and blocked to visits by the faithful.

A great example of Baroque in Leonessa.

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The Church of St Joseph from Leonessa is a beautiful Baroque church. Many are the treasures inside it: the objects of the holy kept in a wooden teak, the grave above the altar, the archeological remains ...

The 2016 earthquake injury

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This basilica contains the teca with the body of St. Joseph from Leonessa. Unfortunately the 2016 earthquake damage was important and you can't enter the interior until now, but you need to stop ...

Too little for a great saint

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The Sanctuary is lost in the middle of the facades of the central course. Artistically and in the architectural perspective there is very little. I find the teca with the rests of the Holy a great deal of lumber.

Devotion

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It is the heart of the city. The centre of an unconditional devotion rich in historical and popular traditions, but always fruit of a faith that every lion's guards proudly and that does ...