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The Festa del Redentore is an event held in Venice the third Sunday of July where fireworks play an important role.. The Redentore began as a feast – held on the day of the Feast of the Most Holy Redeemer – to give thanks for the end of the terrible plague of 1576, which killed 50,000 people, [1] including the great painter Tiziano Vecellio (Titian).
The feast is found only in the special calendar of some dioceses and religious orders, and is celebrated with proper Mass and Office either on the third Sunday of July or on 23 October. In Venice this feast has been observed for more than three centuries with great solemnity. Gaetano Moroni in his "Dizionario" gives some interesting data ...
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer The nave in the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer. The Feast of the Redeemer is scheduled for July 17, 2021, the religious festival established in memory of the end of the plague pandemic that hit Venice between 1575 and 1577 is accompanied by a fireworks display of particular beauty.
Il Redentore was built as a votive church in thanksgiving for deliverance from a major outbreak of the plague that decimated Venice between 1575 and 1576, in which some 46,000 people (25–30% of the population) died. [1] The Senate of the Republic of Venice commissioned the architect Andrea Palladio to design the votive church. [2]
Venice, Italy Peering out from the top of the 325-foot bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica affords visitors a breathtaking view of Venice's domes, red roofs, twisting alleys, and iconic canals with ...
In 1787 the church came under public administration. Restoration was begun under Austrian rule in the 1840s and finished in 1869, by which time Venice had become part of the unified Kingdom of Italy. Since 1931 the church is assigned to Saint Leonardo Murialdo's "Padri della congregazione di San Giuseppe". [1]
For the upcoming Feast of the Redeemer celebrations, Titta plans for himself, Rossana and Vipera to infiltrate the Fieschi's ball - to which Rossana was invited by Manrico - and kidnap Manrico to bow the Doge and the people of Venice to his will.
San Michele di Murano. The Resurrection of Christ was produced for the Marino Zorzi chapel in the mortuary church of San Michele di Murano in Venice. [4] The Berlin State Museums state that this painting fit the theme of the location of the painting, as its patrons hoped to be reborn to life when the Last Judgment would arrive. [1]