St. Martin of Tours Bishop
photos are of the photographic Enzo Mattana
The following description of the church of San Martino as explained by the work of Lucio Pinna after searches in the Historical Archives of the Parish of St. Catherine of Alexandria VM
S. MARTINO (Bishop of Tours)
(Church demolished in 1973)
The Church of St. Martin was a seventeenth-century style, and end 600 the beginning of 1700 must be construction by the Confraternity of the Rosary.
This church was under the patronage of that fraternity, and was built at the expense of his brothers. Among the churches
branches was the most distinct expression of the agrarian class emerging in mid-seventeenth century supplanted the old elders, who gathered in the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross.
was only one nave, were kept inside the statues of Our Lady of the Rosary, St. Dominic, St. Matthew, and two angels at the altar.
were kept in the church in all probability also images of the Virgin of Sorrows and Our Lady of "S'Incontru. The data
amazing this building is that there is no church-track, more than 150 years of records, or the statue of St. Martin, or even celebration of minimum (a Mass, a procession ....) Anniversary of this saint . Not
understand why a church is dedicated to a saint who then was not even celebrated, and that has left few traces in time nell'onomastica also common.
This fact raises a question for the moment difficult to explain, in the absence of further documentation.
The main festival is held in this church was instead the feast of St. Dominic.
devotion to this saint is explained by the direct dependence, adjustable for any part of the 600 and 700, the Confraternity of the Rosary in our area from the Convent of Busch, built in 500 by Count Nicholas Torres and entrusted to the Dominicans.
The festival began to be characterized definitively in the first year of 1700.
previously not remarked against the Brotherhood schedule details, except in Holy Week, when the penitential rites officiated by the Brotherhood in S. Martino, culminating with a procession of flagellates. This ritual was banned by the Archbishop
Cusani edicts in 1789. Towards
40 years of the eighteenth century began to celebrate with increasing pump and expenditure statement the anniversary of St. Dominic (August 8), which thus became the party of the summer abbasantesi.
The cost of these celebrations are accruing to the Confraternity of the Rosary, whose members, in the period, were well able to support it!
appear by the end of 700 cost of fireworks ("pólvora"), bombs and firecrackers, entertainment unusual for its time because costly.
Another party that had as St. Martin's background was the feast of St. Matthew.
Although this was a party, so-called "private" because it originated from a substantial legacy of the Reverend Matthew Ibba in 1775.