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in 1932, the statute of the Ladies of
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The building is internally divided into three wings, with the chapel in the central one on the ground floor, which you can enter through a lobby; there were the waiting room, the secretary's office, service rooms and a large corridor here. The right wing was occupied by the nursery school and the
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Daily hosting external girls in apposite rooms, in order to receive the religious education and instruction appropriate for their class, preferring the poorer ones.
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Daily curing of the sick people, external to the institution, in some separate rooms, and doing home-based health care: these activities had to be done by the
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to Alcamo. In fact, even if she could stop the foundation of this institution, as she survived her husband, she did not do it, on the contrary she helped it.
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and the poor. The main purpose was promoting spiritual and charitable activities, obtaining food, clothes and money. The members had to be devotee of Saint
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Right altar: Saint
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who were in Alcamo; other important activities were: for the endemic diseases in the period 1929-39, for the soldiers camped in Alcamo during
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Initially, from 1870 to 1874, it operated at
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for children who were lodged at the prophylactic
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the Blessed Giovan Gabriele Perboyre (1926), made by the priest Francesco Alesi; it represents a young Vincentian missionary with the
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Carlo Cataldo: Guida storico-artistica dei beni culturali di Alcamo-Calatafimi-Castellammare Golfo p. 82; Sarograf, Alcamo, 1982
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Besides, every year on 15 March (the feast of Saint Luisa di Marillac), on 19 July (Saint Vincent de Paul), and on 20 November (
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A mosaic made by Gaetano Costa from Alcamo on the central panel of the altar: it represents three circles (symbolizing the
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Roberto Calia: L'istituto Pia Opera Pastore e lo Spirito di S.Vincenzo de Paoli in Alcamo; Campo, Alcamo, 1985
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Roberto Calia: L'istituto Pia Opera Pastore e lo Spirito di S.Vincenzo de Paoli in Alcamo; Campo, Alcamo, 1985
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Saint Francis of Sales: by an unknown author; the Saint is sitting on an armchair and wearing a violet
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having six columns with gilded corinthian capitals; above the altar there is a large painting of the
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and folded arms, holding a small palm with his left hand and embracing a
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in memory of the two barons Pastore; wife and husband, buried here.
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