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of this confraternity has extensive and documented record of his formal foundation, Sunday, December 4, 1639, just in a particular context of events dramatic for the country, including, in particular, the succession of severe famines that led to this widespread phenomenon of pauperism, better known under the name of the great crisis of the seventeenth century, which were subjects for forty years not only the Kingdom of Naples, but the ' whole of Europe. For the ecclesial community Terlizzi was added to the recent and bitter experience of repeated complaints from the canonical bishop Marent Giovinazzo fulminate against the priest-bishop George Onorato and the entire chapter, with serious implications for the civil and religious life of the country.
It was not even the disappearance of the collective feeling of dismay and horror that gripped the mind even for the murder archpriest, prelate George Onorato took place two months before (October 9, 1639), while the country appeared to be shielded by the continuing presence of armed guards of the Court of Trani, headed by its dean for the investigation of the crime which had caused such a stir throughout the province.
back to that December 4, 1639, shows so clear from the context of the deed of the incisive spectacular event which would surround the canonical institution of the new brotherhood headed to Our Lady of the Rosary, Queen of Victories, that the intention religious authorities concerned had to close a painful parenthesis for the ecclesial community, still shocked, almost nightmarish, under the weight of so many negative experiences of those years. And all
appear stressed, in that circumstance, by an equal need of the appeal of the Virgin with the initial states of the Psalter, as it was called at that time the pious practice rosariana for a maternal comfort.

for their poignant expressions must have experienced themselves, the drafters of the report of the foundation, those feelings of great religious fervor and devotion with which they were infused with all those present at the great assembly raccoltasi in the convent church of Santa Maria la Nova of Minor, by one vote to the Blessed Virgin. Rosario to work associated with the new association, formed in most headed by the aristocracy as well as the local chapter and the entire population. And all, as held to highlight the notarial record "prostrate and in tears at the foot of the new altar erected in his honor, venerate, calling loudly and honoring the Virgin of the Rosary as their special lady, patron, advocate, protector and mediating with God for them, for the city, the clergy and people, "vowing to hold every year, the first Sunday in October, a penitential procession in her honor (as was in fact the first Sunday of October 1639), because free from every kind of pestilence, famine and war, the city and its inhabitants.

But today no one bay to the spirit that animated the first penitential procession votive. Like all things human
lasted the space of a morning, even that initial fervor of the emerging alliance, which lies on the aura popular, then entering a crisis like all other associations in confraternal took over the conditions imposed by the Enlightenment culture, neglecting even to have its own charter.

We shall in fact the Apostolic Visitor Monsignor Pacecco, in 1725, making a real re-founding of the pious association by a special decree giving it its own statute, have already occurred while the new plebiscite and devotion to Our Lady of Sovereto, elected by a patron City, reserving citizenship Terlizzi and rituals and celebrations of the spectacular triumph of the faithful. But not fail, however, the same people and get a devoted advocate of equal title for Our Lady of the Rosary Confraternity of the same name as the intent was to create a festive celebration in his honor just as spectacular.
With the suppression of the order of the Minor, the brotherhood had to move out from the church of Santa Maria, finding accommodation in the Carmelite church at first and then in the S. Bartholomew (now St. Joseph) and finally in the church of the Annunciation, until, in 1862, he managed to have their own chapel built on a small portion of land purchased by the association Mount of the Dead (now deceased).
He then returned to reclaim the brotherhood of the ancient devotional sympathy of the people of Our Lady of the Rosary and the generosity of many devotees, that enabled her, in 1932, to be able to enlarge the church from the inlet portal Anseramo from Trani, the front adjacent to the church of the Purgatory.
And there is also the same association of the Rosary, over time and changing environmental conditions, mentality, culture with regard to the management of the sacred, to adjust their ritual celebrations at the same festive atmosphere of all the others. Even his procession on the first Sunday of October, deposed as the humble penance Formal wear for the party and of the triumph, the emotional memory of the historic victory of Lepanto (1571) and its papal proclamation in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary awarded the title of Queen of Victories. The brothers wear black on a white coat mozzetta.
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-text from the book "Terlizzi. The Church - The Churches "by Rev. Gary Valente.
-Photos by Francesco De Nicolo.