Votive churches

Connected Sites: 6

Definition
A votive church is a church that was built as a sign of thanksgiving for salvation from an emergency or with a request for the fulfillment of a specific desire, and sometimes atonement. (wiki)

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Connected Sites

  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    611
    19
    Santa Maria della Salute (In 1630, Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health. ), Il Redentore (to thank God for the deliverance of the city from a major outbreak of the plague) (source for both: wiki)
  • Lyon
    Lyon
    France
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.22
    308
    9
    Notre-Dame de Fourvière: dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to whom is attributed the salvation of the city of Lyon from the bubonic plague that swept Europe in 1643 (wiki)
  • Siena
    Siena
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    4.05
    378
    10
    The church of San Giorgio was built on a previous structure and dedicated to San Giorgio in thanksgiving for the victory achieved by the Sienese in the famous battle of Montaperti.
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Monastery of Batalha
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.44
    233
    11
    "Constructed in fulfilment of a vow by King João to commemorate the victory over the Castilians at Aljubarrota (15 August 1385)" (OUV)
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    592
    20
    Votivkirche: Following the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1853, the Emperor's brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaugurated a campaign to create a church to thank God for saving the Emperor's life. And, Karlskirche: In 1713, one year after the last great plague epidemic, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, pledged to build a church for his namesake patron saint, Charles Borromeo, who was revered as a healer for plague sufferers. (both wiki)
  • Longobards in Italy
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.81
    227
    14
    Benevento: the church of S. Sophia was "[f]ounded by duke Arechi II immediately after his election (758) as a national temple and votive chapel for the longobard people". (Nomination file, p. 199)