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Wooden Tabernacle, Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy [Photography]
This is part of a series of photos from our trip to Sicily and Oxford, UK in September 2026
Isolated work by Friar Ludovico Calascibetta from Petralia Sottana (attributed) (first quarter of the 18th century) circa 1700 – before 1729
The word means “dwelling place”. In a church, it is the fixed, secure box that houses the Eucharist outside of Mass.
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Books about Sicily – Fiction and Non-Fiction
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