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Mine Gessolungo and renewal Veronica's

's November 11, 1881 at 6.00 am, a calamity strikes the city of Caltanissetta, a collapse in the mine Gessolungo; sixty-six the dead, including nineteen children. The survivors, led by the brothers Tortorici ("master builders" of mine) for a personal thanks to God for having escaped the disaster, they wanted to restore the tradition of Holy Thursday, just as happened not long ago.

Nell 'were able to reproduce the following year in an impressive procession, but the group entrusted to them, "Veronica" was very shabby and then built in wood, a material too heavy to shoulder, and so, after the procession of 1882, it was decided to build another.

some time in Caltanissetta, there was news of two artists from Naples, Francesco and Vincenzo Biangardi , residents in the nearby town of Musselburgh, who worked with statues of Our Lady of Miracles and the Madonna del Carmine. These two works, from 'excellent artistic value, they soon become Biangardi famous throughout southern Italy. The nissen

Alfonso Palermo, rector of the church of San Sebastiano, the two artists commissioned a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows and the restoration of the statue of San Sebastian. Given the ability of the two artists, was commissioned restoration of the precious statue of the patron saint of Caltanissetta, San Michele Arcangelo, which had never been assigned to anyone.

Alfonso Palermo thought about all the ways to use that precious apportunità to enrich the city's churches with the works of two great artists, and decided to commission a statue of Sant 'Alfonso de' Liguori in the territory to spread the cult of the Holy nissen, but he lacked the means to have a built in wood.

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The good rector went to Musselburgh,

Mastro Francesco Biangardi asking if he could build a paper mache statue. At first the Biangardi is refused because he had always carved the finest materials, but later, thanks to 'encouragement of Father Langel, a friend of the sculptor, became deeply involved in processing of paper mache and built a beautiful statue of Sant' Alfonso de 'Liguori, still enshrined in the Church of San Sebastian.

's idea of \u200b\u200bcommissioning the Vara the two artists spent Tortorici certainly in the minds of siblings who, after seeing the extraordinary statue of Sant' Alfonso de 'Liguori papier-mâché, they decided that they would be just the Biangardi to realize the new Veronica. La Vara, which cost over 900 pounds at the mine, was not made in paper mache, but with the "mixed", which gave the resistance the wood without excessive weight.

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- Excerpt from "The Rites of Holy Week in Caltanissetta" by Francesco Miceli.

- Photo by Walter Lo Cascio.