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Montecorone of Zocca, St. Justine Church
St. Justine Church is vouched for the first time in a document of 1277 while its dependency from the parish of Trebbio dates back to 1291. The accounts provided by bishops of Modena about their pastoral visits to the church in the period after the Council of Trent enable to retrace the preservative history of the religious building: in 1569, Gaspare Silingardi certified the state of decay of the building and ordered its immediate restoration. During these restoration works, the inscription on the façade was probably placed. It quotes: “terribilis est locus iste – hic domus dei – 1585”. The restoration activities went on during all the 17th century, when the church was assigned to the congregation of Guglia. The building was submitted to renovation in 1740 too. During the last intervention dating back to 1919, the Carpi painter Arcangelo Salvarani decorated the vault with paintings representing the Martyrdom of Saints Justine and Cipriano.
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