Sanctuary of the SS. Trinity
In the hamlet of Morge, in the locality of Trinità, stands the ancient Sanctuary of the SS. Trinity. Along the road leading to the hamlet of Molviano there was in the past a votive shrine with a fresco representing the SS. Trinity, attributed to the school of Cola dell'Amatrice (Nicola Filotesio), of the sixteenth century.
The building was perhaps built on the remains of a pagan temple dedicated to Jupiter, of which traces remain in the edge of a stone basin: finds brought back to the light in recent decades around the church. The gabled façade shows a stone portal crowned by a broken tympanum with an aedicule in the middle and the engraved inscription "TRINITAS EST".
On the sides you can see typical rectangular windows with iron grates. The side entrance reads: "TRES PERSONAE". On the back a bell gable with three bells. Inside, with a single nave, a ceiling supported by wooden trusses; in the center, the original votive shrine, incorporated into a Baroque tabernacle (17th century) open on three sides, in the shape of a small temple. It is decorated with pillars, pilasters, stone statues and gilded stuccoes.
On the sides of the main altar two plaques with the Cross of Indulgences, granted by Pope Leo XIII in 1901. The image depicts the SS. Trinity with the figures of the Madonna and St. John the Evangelist; in the background, a typical Campleses landscape. From this sanctuary come a sixteenth-century "Last Supper", a canvas by a painter from the Marche region and an "Annunciation", a copy of Guido Reni.
The two paintings, for safety reasons, were moved to the nearby Capuchin Convent of Campli. Behind the temple there is an altar with a fresco (Madonna with Child) and a stucco cartouche with a dedication to the Eternal Father: "D. O. M. 1696 ". A tile on the cornice bears the date 1738. Among the various canvases a “S. Atanasio Vescovo ”of 1607. The temple was dear to the Acquaviva, dukes of Atri. There were numerous sacred furnishings and paintings preserved.
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