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Cappellone del Crocifisso

  • Visit: about 20 min
Cappellone del Crocifisso
Photo: Giuseppe Guida · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized

The Carafa chapel in San Domenico Maggiore, with the Crucifix that, according to tradition, spoke to Saint Thomas Aquinas.

In San Domenico Maggiore, the Cappellone del Crocifisso is one of the largest and most important chapels in the church, almost a pantheon of the Carafa family, rich in Renaissance funerary monuments.Here is kept the 13th-century painted Crucifix which, according to tradition, spoke to Saint Thomas Aquinas, praising his writings. A place steeped in history and faith.

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