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S. Onofrio of Morrone
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(Roccamorice)
St. Pietro Celestino V

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Despite re-handing over the centuries and the partial destruction by bombing during last war, the refuge has not lost the severe inaccessible appearance it had in Pietro’s time. From the observation beck a staircase dug from the bare rock leads to another deck that looks out across the Peligna valley. Here a small opening leads into an antechamber then into a room frescoed with devotional images including an enthroned Madonna flanked by the sun and the moon.
 
Then there is an oratory with a blue, star spangled vault, covered with images painted by Maestro Gentile of Sulmona in Pietro’s last years in these places. The back wall has a Crucifixion with Mary and S. Giovanni at the foot of the Cross; on the entrance lunette S. Benedetto is depicted between the two hermit fathers, Mauro and Antonio.

On the left there is a portrait of S.Pietro Celestino, dressed with his monk’s robe, but he also wears the papal tiara and martyr’s palm. In the centre a simple but ancient altar contains a stone crucifix which tradition believes to have been blessed by Celestino V during the mass the he celebrated here in his papal robes before setting off for Naples.
The construction includes a series of recently restored cells and rooms, which were the refuges of religious and lay hermits until the turn of the century. It was here that Brother Pietro received the news of his election to the papacy.
06/06/2006


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