Fossacesia

Fossacesia is a municipality with 6389 inhabitants in the province of Chieti ( Abruzzo region ) in Italy.

The neighboring municipalities are Lanciano, Mozzagrogna, Paglieta, Rocca San Giovanni, Santa Maria Imbaro and Torino di Sangro.

San Giovanni in Venere

On the territory of the municipality in direct coastal areas on a mountain top, the Abbazia di San Giovanni in Venere is located. The planning began in 1165, the execution but only after 1200. There was a previous building a temple of Venus Conciliatrix, which gave its name to the later Romanesque Benedictine system.

The cloister in the dimensions 42 x 43.5 m 1932-35 was restored in its original form. 1936 declared monks of the Order of Passionists ready to take over the church, but after lengthy negotiations, it was only in 1954 to conclude a contract. Since then, the Passionists have the system set laboriously repaired. Now home to six monks.

The facade waived up to a cornice and blind arcades on all jewelry. For this, the portal is the most richly decorated of time in the whole Abruzzo. The jambs of three stepped pilasters and a previously identified column is simple, as are the arches of the Archivolte. The Lünettenfiguren have only fragmentary obtained ( enthroned Christ between Mary and John the Baptist ).

The relief panels are from the years 1225 to 1230. They show scenes from the life of John the Baptist - without chronological context.

  • Left: top jewelry relief with two peacocks drinking, including John and two Jews, to whom he declared on a scroll, I am the voice in the wilderness; probably next to the visualization of the word. Among into three sections, the Annunciation, her meeting with Elizabeth and an unidentifiable shape; Finally, a kneeling man between two griffins.
  • Right: circumcision of John, left his father Zacharias wrote the name of the Son on a blackboard; including the announcement of the birth of John in ( the infidel ) Zacharias; Finally, at the bottom Daniel in the lions' den.

Links from the Portal: taken in Tomb of the 1204 deceased abbot Odorisius II, abgetreppt consuming, formerly occupied mosaic framing.

Specialty

In the surroundings of the village vines of Montepulciano are grown for the DOC wine Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.

Sons and daughters of the community

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