Santissima Trinità, Catania

Santissima Trinità (Holiest Trinity) is a late-

Roman Catholic church and former monastery (Badia) located on Via Vittorio Emanuele, corner of Via Santissima Trinità in the city Catania, Sicily, southern Italy

. The monastery is now a science high school.

History and description

The

Benedictine nuns once associated with this monastery, founded in 1351 by a noblewoman Cesaria de Augusta, had initially owned a church on vico San Martino, this was united to the monastery of Portosalvo in 1554, and then to the college of the orphans two years later.^[1]

Only after the

Serlian window

. On the flanks the facade rises to towers.

The interior nave has an elliptical shape, while the apse has a rectangular layout. The interior has a number of notable altarpieces. The first altar on the right houses a Baptism of Jesus by

Olivio Sozzi (a copy of the painting by Vito D'Anna for the church of Origlione in Palermo). The third altar houses a Madonna appearing to St. John the Baptist on Patmos attributed to Sebastiano Conca. The firs altar on the left is a Crucifixion, while the third altar is St Benedict and the vision of the Trinity by Sozzi.^[2]

References

^ Catania e sue vicinanze: manuale pel viaggiatore, C. Galatola, 1867, page 48.
^ Entry in Catania Reconstructed by Giuseppe Maimone Publisher, in the comune website.

[1] Catania e sue vicinanze: manuale pel viaggiatore, C. Galatola, 1867, page 48.

[2] Entry in Catania Reconstructed by Giuseppe Maimone Publisher, in the comune website.

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