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The church and convent of Santa Lucia (su guventu) is the oldest monument, of Early Medieval origin, found in the territory of San Gavino Monreale, dating back to the 9th-10th century. Built on previous Nuragic settlements, it was later renovated by the first monks of the Greek-Byzantine rite who arrived in Sardinia in those centuries. It is assumed that it was – initially – a chapel/aedicule of Basilian monks; there are many elements supporting this hypothesis: first of all the fact that these monks were cenobitic (they met in community places), and often consecrated pagan places into Christian ones.
The first hypothesis is confirmed by the discovery, in the anterefectory, of traces of an ancient dome with almost intact corbels, with vine leaves in relief and which, according to Father Iliario Orrù, are to be attributed to Greek matrices; the second hypothesis, also reported by Father Orrù, is that in the center of the cloister a spring was discovered covered and closed by walls, which was accessed via stairs, and which was probably traced back to the cult of the waters of the Nuragic people; as happened in other places, Christians reconverted places like these to the Saints, in this case Saint Lucia, a martyr from Syracuse and blessed for the cure of blindness, which often occurred through water.
The cloister is a very beautiful and fragile work, with the oldest roof built in juniper wood, which however becomes stronger as it becomes older. Furthermore, there are two tombstones with medieval inscriptions in Gothic and dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries, a sign of the burial of Pisan-Tuscan people (and perhaps the place continued to maintain its cemetery function for centuries). Of the original structure it is therefore possible to see the ancient barrel vault, the heavy arches, as well as the two engravings in Greek with the words “men of Basil” and “Aetione”, although written with abbreviations of the Benedictine school.
After the 11th century – with the great schism between the Western and Eastern Churches – the Basilian monks were forced to leave and the convent was taken first by the Benedictines, then from the 16th century by the Franciscans, brought by the Spanish power, who continued to expand the building and carry on its activity; in fact, the writing “1541” dates back to those years, found engraved on a block that joined the sacristy with the small church, a date that however is a few years before the arrival of the Franciscan monks.
In some chapels inside the church there are marble altars – from the 16th century and later – with a particular cross, which is very reminiscent of the symbol of the Knights Templar, who however had already been abolished and outlawed by the established authorities of the time.
The monks of the Convent also ran a school, the University of Theology and Letters, with an important library starting from around the 17th century. As evidence of the social role of this place for the community of San Gavino, there are numerous attestations of bequests, wills and economic transactions that private citizens or authorities paid to the monks of the church; in addition to this, there were buildings in front of the church itself, called buttegheddas de guventu, or a long row of rooms that the religious gave to the pilgrims who came for the feast in honor of the saint.
https://www.sangavinomonreale.net/2014/06/04/la-chiesa-di-santa-lucia/.
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