Funeral monument of Andrea Candida

“The stone that talks” about the history of the diocese and the role of its bishops

Although only built in the mid-eighteenth century, the funerary monument of Bishop Andrea Candida, located on the right pillar aligned near the median axis of the nave, attests to the consideration paid to his reforming action in the diocese, almost two centuries after his mandate. The work was commissioned by a great-grandson of the bishop, Ettore Candida, who entrusted the drafting of the epigraph text to the apostolic vicar Giuseppe Antonio Parlà. Parlà was canon of the Penitentiary and continued Ottaviano Pasqua’s literary work on the biographies of the bishops of Gerace. The marble tablet for the inscription, which also recalls the role played by Candida as commander of the Order of the Knights of Rhodes in Puglia, is placed below the most widespread family coat of arms, with a double-tailed mermaid in the upper partition and three stars in the lower one.

 

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