History and description of the church of Santa Chiara Marciana Marina
The church of Santa Chiara Marciana Marina dates back to 1776, it bears the same title as a previous church attested from the seventeenth century which was located at the current waterfront of the town. It has a single nave, with the facade adorned with four columns and a cornice on which a frontispiece rests, the marble baptistery to the right of the entrance, the holy water drains in black marble, the chestnut choir find the pipe organ dated 1829 The altars are dedicated to the Madonna del Rosario, to the souls in Purgatory and to the Most Holy Crucifix where the “Crucifixion” dominates. The high altar is in marble with a ciborium decorated with cherubs. On the sides the showcases contain ex-votos and sacred furnishings and on the right a niche with the stucco statue of the “Madonna Addolorata” overlooking the dead Christ.
Santa Chiara
Chiara was born in Assisi, in 1193, from the noble family of Favarone degli Offreducci. She was still a child when a civil war broke out in the city between the nobles and the nascent bourgeoisie and Chiara had to take refuge, with her family, in Perugia, where she remained until her youth. Returning to Assisi, with the desire to belong only to Christ and attracted by the example of St. Francis, on the night of Palm Sunday 1212 she leaves her father’s house and, at the Porziuncola, embraces the Gospel Form of Life in the footsteps of the Lord and his most holy mother. His life is consumed in the small cloister of the monastery of San Damiano, in a joyful following of the poor and crucified Christ. In a simple, hardworking and fraternal life, through the path of poverty, she opens up to the mystery of God.
360 ° interior of the church of Santa Chiara
How to reach the Church of Santa Chiara Marciana Marina
The church of Holy Chiara is located in the center of the town, in the square Vittorio Emanuele (also known as piazza di sopra or Church square) in Marciana Marina, a few meters further inside the seafront. or church square ) in Marciana Marina, a few meters further inside the seafront.