AEDICULE

AEDICULE WITH RELATIVE ICONS (in Casale they are called Cappelle)

There are several aedicule with relative icons all around the village. Once, they were built at crossroads, on walls of houses, for devotion. They are true pieces of real life stories, because behind each of these there is a story, sometimes a painful one.

We can admire one of these at Croce, dedicated to Madonna of Canneto, commissioned by Rodi Mattia in1897.

Another one, very old, is at crossroads with the road that goes to cemetery. It is dedicated to Madonna Addolorata, commissioned by unknown person, in 1883.

Following the same road there is another one in locality: La Petraia. It was commissioned by the married couple Pirollo for their son, which was gone to war. There is only the aedicule left, but the icon has been lost. The writing says:” GIAN BATTISTA PIROLLO, DIED IN WAR -IN JUNE 1917 – THE PARENTS BUILT”. There was a photo, but it got lost. That son, who went to war, never came back in his country. Then, the parents felt the need of building this aedicule. He left the young wife Matilde Di Meo with the few years old daughter, Teresa. Unfortunately, that child was out of luck in her life. Beyond the fact she was without father, she died while she was having a child, leaving Domenico, her husband, widowed. That child was named Giambattista. Her corps with her mother’s one rests in peace in Casale cemetery, instead her father (that of aedicule) rests in peace in Military Cemetery of Redipuglia.

Going toward the Fontane Vecchie, we find another aedicule with a gypsum little statue of Madonna, in relief.

Coming back toward Collevecchio, at crossroads with the road that goes to Collepezzella, we find an icon dedicated to S. Antonio, commissioned by Domenico Pirollo (was Antonio). Near to this cappella the assessor Pasquale Di Meo was killed for a boundaries question.

If you continue on the road that goes to Mastro Giovanni, we can see another one in the old road that went to Collepezzella. We can admire a beautiful little cappella with relative gate, commissioned by Di Stefano Giambattista e Rongione Dolorosa. Regarding these characters, written on the wall of the cappella, probably Dolorosa is the same named in the Antonio Grossi‘s book: All’insegna della caccia. “Dolorosa is a young lady, dressed as a mountain woman, tall, thin, with colored neckerchief tied to neck, with ciocie as shoes and leather strings on the legs up till knees”.

Unfortunately, on the cappela it was destroyed the date, then we can’t understand the époque when it was built and we can’t also know if she was the same Dolorosa, to which she was given this name, because her mother passed away while she was giving her birth. Quoted by the book, we can understand that Dolorosa’s father was named Domenico (in dialect Minc) and Dorolosa had an aunt that had the face disfigured by a burn. She always wore his face covered. It should be interesting trying to find a connection, in the memory of older Casalesi people.

Coming back on the road that goes to Casale, going on towards the Ponte, we can find another cappella, near to Colle di Fabio. In reality, it is not in good conditions.

If from Croce we go down to Airella, at first crossroads we find again a short cappella with a beautiful painting of the Madonna.

We can admire another icon that portrays the Madonna of Pompei, commissioned by Stefano Rongione on the wall of a house at Macerella. Finally, there is another icon of S. Antonio, on a house of Collemerino, commissioned by Giovanni Tommasi 1912.