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Masserano (Biella)- Church of the Holy Spirit
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 The Church of the Holy Spirit is a Baroque church located at the entrance to the upper part of the town.
In 1603, the Archconfraternity of the Holy Spirit was founded in Masserano, a confraternity closely linked to the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit in Rome. Its members wore red habits and gathered in the Church of San Rocco to attend Mass, which a chaplain celebrated every Sunday. This confraternity played a key role in the political and social life of the time.
That same year, construction began on the new Church of the Holy Spirit, commissioned by Paolo Besso Ferrero Fieschi, lord of Masserano.
In 1671, private citizens taxed themselves to purchase a new organ from Francesco Traeni of Brescia.
In 1831, the sacristy was enlarged and a room was built above it.
The church was very rich inside, but nowadays almost all the works of art that the confraternity had accumulated inside it have been transferred to the Collegiate Church of the Most Holy Announced.
Categories: Places of historical value of artistic value
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