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4 - BASILICA OF SAINT SALVATORE IN OGNISSANTI

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  Hour opening:

  Lunedì-martedì-Sabato hours 09:00 -12:00
  Closing: New Year's Day, 1° May, Been born them.

  Deliveries: Florence,  Ognissanti Village, 42
  TEL. 055.239.87.00 (Catholic Church Parochial SS. Salvatore In Advanced Ognissanti and Parish priest)

  Religious functions: 10:30-18:30 (dom), 19:00 (mar-mer-giov-ven).

Inner Basilica of Ognissanti

The church, begun in 1251 made part of the conventuale complex of Humiliates to you, an order been born in Lombardy in XII the century. It humiliates to you they were given over to the working of the wool, the acceptance of the pilgrims and had some problem with the Papacy for via of some been born heretical tendencies to the inside of the movement. They were scomunicati in the 1184 from I little conciliate of Verona and riammessi after from Pope Innocenzo III that reorganized them in three orders: the chierici, monaci and the laici. In the 1571 definitively soppresso order fi also because of one strange event. A sure Donated Gerolamo, said "Flour", 26 October 1569 oed in the night to the archbishopric hiding a archibugio and surprising Saint Carl Borromeo in prayer in a nail head (sees also Alexander Manzonii  promises spouses). A blow the exploded Flour that did not make damage some but that he was determining for the abolition of the order.

To Florence custom Humiliates to it to you was settled down outside city like they before and just in order to offer that acceptance to the pilgrims who a put off center position facilitated. They were settled therefore near the chiesetta of Lucia Saint, and gradually extended their property until that is comprising an oratory on the village (on a road outside of the old town-walls building), where they made to construct to their church to honorem Sanctorum Omnium and the convent; the complex came carried a.termine in 1260.

The zone particularly was adapted, because to the height of the Door to the Carraia, where the Mugnone sfociava in the Arno, was a isoletta that it formed an useful channel in order to gain the hydraulic energy for flour mills and to gualchiere. In order to favor such exploitation, It humiliates it constructed the pescaia to you of Rosa Saint, with to a rich system of channels. In short time, to the end of the duegento, seen blooming of the wealth of the quarter and the traders whom through donations to the order that in sure a which way was reason of their comfort, It humiliates to it to you they were calls to you to cover important governmental functions.

Around to 1310 mail came on altar greater the Maestà di Giotto, hour to the Uffizi. In the sagrestia other trecentesche works are conserved, like a Crocifissione to I fresco of Taddeo Gaddi and a Crocifisso painted from a collaborator of Giotto. Always to the 1300's laughed them the slanciato bell tower.