Alife Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Alife, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Alife in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy. Dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, it is the seat of the Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo.
Alife Cathedral, first built in 1132, was formerly dedicated to Pope Sixtus I, later Saint Sixtus, the patron saint of the city. After the severe earthquakes of 1456 and 1688, the cathedral was largely rebuilt in Baroque style, and reopened in 1692.
The interior has however maintained noteworthy elements of the Lombard-Norman building, including two arcades decorated with sculptures of animals (including the elephant, heraldic symbol of the city established by the d'Aquino family, who ruled Alife from 1121 to 1269) and saints. Also interesting is the Romanesque crypt, which houses the relics of Saint Sixtus, brought here by Ranulf, Count of Alife: it has a rectangular plan and columns from the ancient Roman theatre. Some of the capitals are ancient, while others are mediaeval copies of the Roman originals.
AlifeCathedral (Italian: Duomo di Alife, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Alife in the province of Caserta, Campania...
up alife or A-life in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alife may refer to: Alife, Campania, Italy, a comune in Caserta AlifeCathedral, in Alife Diocese...
previously the cathedral (episcopal seat) of the diocese of Caiazzo, until in 1986 it became a co-cathedral in the present Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo, which...
– and co-cathedrals. Many former cathedrals and proto-cathedrals are also included, but many more are yet to be added. Almost all cathedrals in Italy...
(or Rainulf II, Italian: Rainulfo; died 30 April 1139) was the count of Alife and Caiazzo, and duke of Apulia. He was a member of the Italo-Norman Drengot...
(died 1116) was a south Italian nobleman who ruled the counties of Airola, Alife, Caiazzo, Sant'Agata and Telese from 1088 until his death. He was the regent...
children were: Matilda (died before 1094), married Ranulf II, Count of Alife and pretender to the Duchy of Apulia. Simon (1093–1105), Count of Sicily...
preached a crusade against Roger, setting Robert II of Capua and Ranulf II of Alife (his own brother-in-law) against him. After this coalition failed, in August...
southern Italy, abolished in 1986, when it was united into the Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo. It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Capua. According to legend...
bust of Skanderbeg, to honor their ethnic and linguistic origins. The Cathedral of St. Nicholas of Myra (Qisha and Shën Kollit, 18th century), is the...
built around 1485 to venerate a miraculous apparition of the Madonna. Alife Anghiari, Tuscany : Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie o della Propositura...
new metropolitanate had ten suffragan dioceses: Saint Agatha, Avellino, Alife, Ariana, Ascoli, Bibino (Bovinum), Larino, Quintodecimum (earlier at Aeculanum...
to the province of Naples, although municipalities near Piedimonte and Alife were distributed between the provinces of Benevento and Campobasso and the...
from Suessa, of which remains still exist, and which continued east to Alife. In the 4th century Teano became seat of a diocese, and was later an important...
Emperor. On 27 August 1546 he was elected Bishop of Alife. He was consecrated as a bishop in Trento Cathedral on 21 December 1546 by Cardinal Giovanni Maria...
Resuming his advance in March, he took Gaeta, laid siege to Capua, took Alife and Telese, and joined up with the papal troops of Benevento. Advancing...
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