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Parish church of S. Lorenzo

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The Parish Church of S. Lorenzo has been remodeled several times and is coeval with the Monastery of S. Onofrio (ruins), located in the homonymous hamlet of Campli, entrusted first to the Augustinians and later to the Celestines.

Cesenànum would date back to 1277, when it was subject to the aforementioned monastery. It stands on the ancient church, which became the vicariate of S. Onofrio. Palma writes that, when it was erected, after the suppression of the monastery in the fifteenth century, it was immediately elevated to a parish by the king of Naples on the funds of the regular ecclesiastical patronage and recognized as royal patronage.

Until 1827 the care of souls was administered by an abbot of the Celestines. In 1530 S. Lorenzo di "Cesenàno" paid 18 “denari” annually for the Easter professor (ordinary tax subject to the bishop) of the land of Campli and also delivered 2 “tomoli” of wheat. It has a simple gabled façade with a small portal with a flat architrave and cushioning in stone; in the back, a bell gable with two bells.

The interior, with a single nave with apse, houses a remarkable canvas (17th century) depicting the "Madonna of the Rosary and Saints", signed by the Mantuan Onorio Morbioli, and a holy water stoup decorated and dated 1512. The parish of Cesenà includes the hamlet of Villa Camera.

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Parish church of S. Lorenzo
Cesenà, Campli TE, Italia
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