Church of Our Lady of Mercy

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The Church of Our Lady of Mercy is managed by the Order of the Mercedarians, present in San Cataldo since 1676.

Chiesa della Mercede

The current structure dates back to the early 1950s, when the previous church was demolished for structural reasons and replaced with a new building. Designed with a single nave, the main altar features the Madonna delle Grazie, a polychrome wooden sculpture from 1880 by the sculptor Calogero Cardella from Agrigento.

On the right wall, several works can be admired, including a painting of Saint Vitus by Angelo Falduzzi (1732) and another depicting the Virgin and Child with Mercedarian saints from the 17th century. On the opposite wall stands out an early 19th-century wooden sculpture representing Our Lady of Mercy by the Palermo-born Girolamo Bagnasco, as well as a painting by Michele Butera, a local artist, portraying the Virgin interceding with her Son for the souls in Purgatory, completed in 1839.
 

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