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CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF GRACE IN AIDONE SICILY

Church of our Lady of grace with painting on stone of the Madonna allattaLa Church is located next to the one of Saint Anthony, the eastern entrance of the country; owes its birth to the legendary discovery in 1618 by a picture of the Virgin suckling the Child, painted on a stone slab.

The icon depicting the Madonna delle Grazie, according to recent documentary captures found by art historian Susanna Salinas, is similar to the painting, which the painter Pietro Antonio Novelli (Monreale, 1568 1625), father of the famous Peter, said Il Monrealese, painted on Slate, for the Augustinian convent of Caltanissetta.

Preserves a Baroque altar, carved woodwork, where it is set the shrine with the image held sacred, closed by two doors on which are painted pictures of San Leo and San Lorenzo.
On a side altar you can admire a valuable painting that depicts the procession of the Holy virgins, dated 1642.

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