Museo parrocchiale di Sant'Ignazio

About the museum

The museum is dedicated to the saint of Laconi, Ignatius (1701–1781), and is attached to the parish church of Saints Ambrose and Ignatius, in the historic centre of the town. A visit to the saint’s places normally includes his birthplace, the parish church with its baptistery and mosaic chapel, and the small museum.

The collections hold a silver reliquary containing a bone from Ignatius’s hand, his rosary and the original documents of the canonisation process, together with the original canvas portraying him in 1781. The display also includes sacred silverware from the 16th and 17th centuries, 16th-century vestments, statues (some of them Spanish, from the 16th century), two 17th-century oil paintings, jewellery and terracotta finds from the Roman and pre-Roman periods, a coin collection and objects brought back from the missions in Africa and Australia.

Highlights

• Silver reliquary with a bone from the hand of Saint Ignatius and his rosary
• Original documents of the canonisation process
• Sacred silverware and vestments from the 16th and 17th centuries
• Coin collection and objects from the missions in Africa and Australia

Permanent exhibition

• Reliquie e arte sacra di Sant'Ignazio da Laconi – Reliquary, rosary and canonisation documents of the saint, 16th- and 17th-century silverware and vestments, statues, paintings, a coin collection and objects from the missions.

Operated by

Parrocchia dei Santi Ambrogio e Ignazio

Visitors per year

approx. 2,000

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