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went independent basis, since 1703, a group devoted to charitable purposes for the poor and destitute, supplying them with bread at local festivals throughout the year. The dean
Pantaleo, provident to canonically associating the first fraternity in the chapel with its altar dedicated to the saint, the right of the ancient collegiate and assigning them a special church service for some solemnity.
not yet had its own statutes when the Bishop visited Pacecco in 1725, providing for the opportunity to refound it rather completely by decree.

With the demolition of the college, in 1782, had to adapt, at first in the church of S. Giovanni Porta del Lago, in a condominium with contemporary Confraternity of Mary of Constantinople, but then, in 1876, arranged to have their own local Acconci, in order to pursue the life of associations and religious practices and that the people called S. Giuseppe Vecchio.
However, they were out of reach and too far from the center, in the Estramurale Flavio Joy.

In 1893 he obtained from pawnshop to officiate in the church of S. Bartholomew in the old town, which from that time was under the title of S. Joseph.
We know that the church of S. Joseph was purchased from the de Gaetano Cunzolo in 1919 by the Congregation of the pawnshop and donated to the Confraternity of S. Joseph, settled a few years due to lack of friars.

A witness there is a plaque on the facade dating back to 1926. The church of St.
Joseph is known more as a small church of S. Nicola because half of the children during the liturgical celebration on December 6. The brothers of St. Joseph mozzetta wear yellow.
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-Text taken from book "Terlizzi. The Church - The Churches "by Rev. Gary Valente and built by Francesco De Nicolo.
-Photos by Francesco De Nicolo.