Della Misericordia San Giovanni Decollato

Leading the condemned to death

Address:

Via Barbaroux, 41 - Via Livorno, 60
10122 - Centre
Turin

Nearest Bus or Train:

15

Open Hours:

Not available

This is a seventeenth century church with a rather austere design in a Greek cross style. This is where those condemned to death were led before being executed on the scaffold. At the foot of the Crucifix are ropes, nooses, cords, lanterns and goblets which are a testimony to this sad ceremony. S. Guiseppe Cafasso worked in this holy building for the moral comfort of those who were condemned. The Mass of the ancient rite in Latin and Gregorian chanting is held in the church. Open Su 10a-noon and by request Mass Su 11a (service is in Latin)

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