The showcase contains:
Early 18th century
Inventory of the Robbe and Giocali of the Cathedral
manuscript – from the Historical Archive of the Diocese of Lipari
It contains the first attestation of the silver statue of St Bartholomew ‘with his silver skin in his right arm and large silver knife in his left fist, with his painted wooden pedestal’.
Giuseppe La Rosa, 1783
Pyrologia Topostorigrafica dell’Isole di Lipari seu Lipari Sacro
manuscript – from the Historical Archive of the Diocese of Lipari
It contains a sort of chronicle of the life of the Church in the Aeolian Islands from its earliest origins to the end of the 18th century. The author of this precious history of Christianity in the Aeolian Islands, which is inevitably intertwined with local and international civil history, is Giuseppe La Rosa, a lawyer and consultant to the University of Lipari, belonging to one of the noble families of the island’s ancient ‘Gentil’Uomini’ (Gentlemen), already in existence at the beginning of the 17th century, after the destruction of Barbarossa.
since 1774
“Liber Mortuorum”. Register of the Dead of the Cathedral
manuscript – from the Historical Archive of the Diocese of Lipari
Pope Gregory XVI
Episcopal nomination of Monsignor Bonaventura Attanasio, presbyter of Lucerne
Papal bull, lead seal hanging with red and yellow silk thread, 1844 – from the parchment fund of the Historical Archive of the Diocese of Lipari
1602
Pastoral Visit of Monsignor Alfonso Vidal, Bishop of Lipari from 1599 to 1618
Manuscript (Visit of the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew Apostle of Lipari 21 April 1602) – from the Historical Archive of the Diocese of Lipari
