Museo Alfonsiano
Museum devoted to Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori in the Redemptorist complex in Pagani, with personal objects, his cell and a picture gallery.
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About the museum
The Museo Alfonsiano is located in Pagani, in the complex of the basilica and religious house founded in 1742 by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists. The house holds the saint’s remains and also houses the provincial archive of the Redemptorists, a library and a picture gallery; the museum was inaugurated by Pope John Paul II in 1990.
The route traces the saint’s life through objects and personal items: among them are the harpsichord on which he is said to have composed the Christmas carol “Tu scendi dalle stelle”, a ceramic nativity scene from Capodimonte, liturgical vestments, letters, books, instruments of penance, his wheelchair and a funerary mask in wax. They are displayed in the saint’s cell, preserved in its original form.
The picture gallery holds about one hundred paintings, including works by sixteenth-century painters influenced by Flemish art, such as Decio Tramontano and Teodoro d’Errico, and works from the school of Francesco Solimena. The museum and the rooms where the saint lived can be visited every day of the year by reservation.
Highlights
- Harpsichord of Saint Alphonsus, linked to the carol “Tu scendi dalle stelle”
- The saint’s cell with wheelchair, letters and funerary mask
- Ceramic nativity scene from Capodimonte
- Picture gallery with about one hundred paintings, including works from the school of Solimena
- Complex founded in 1742 with the basilica and the saint’s tomb
Permanent exhibition
- Museo Alfonsiano e pinacoteca – Personal objects of Saint Alphonsus, his cell and a picture gallery of about one hundred paintings, largely seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Neapolitan works.
- Operated by
- Missionari Redentoristi di Pagani
- Visitors per year
- approx. 20,000
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Visits are by reservation with the Redemptorist community (telephone 081 916054, email cssrpagani@redentoristi.it). |
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