点评:St Augustine’s church is one of several churches in the small but charming town of Recanati.
It’s off the beaten track for most tourists but for those who have the time to explore the lesser-known Italian towns, this is a good one.
The church is attached to a much larger monastery and cloisters.
Built in the 13th century, the church itself has a relatively plain and unadorned facade but the cloisters and monastery are quite lovely.
The main doorway, with its arched, marble entrance and decorated with garlands, fruit, flowers and tiny faces is the singular feature of the facade.
A small statue of St Augustine sits above the entrance.
Born in Africa in 354AD, he was by all accounts, an improbable convert. His own mother, St Monica, was worried and spent hours praying for his salvation. Something worked and he underwent a religious conversion. St Augustine founded the Augustinian order and is regarded as one of the great Doctors of the Catholic church. His work, Confessions, is seen as a theological and a philosophical masterpiece.
The large, free-standing tower alongside the church is frequently mistaken for the famous tower, immortalised by Giacomo Leopardi in his poem, Il Passero Solitario. It’s an easy mistake to make. Like many others, I assumed it was but in fact its just an old aqueduct tower. The Leopardi tower can be seen from inside the Augustinian cloisters.
翻译:圣奥古斯丁教堂是小而迷人的雷卡纳蒂小镇的几座教堂之一。
对于大多数游客来说,这里是人迹罕至的地方,但对于那些有时间探索鲜为人知的意大利城镇的人来说,这是一个不错的选择。
教堂附属于一座更大的修道院和回廊。
教堂建于13世纪,外观相对朴素,但回廊和修道院却相当可爱。
主门口设有拱形大理石入口,装饰有花环、水果、鲜花和小脸,是立面的独特特征。
入口上方矗立着一座圣奥古斯丁的小雕像。
他于公元 354 年出生于非洲,从各方面来看,他都是一个不可思议的皈依者。他的母亲圣莫妮卡很担心,花了几个小时为他的救赎祈祷。有些事情奏效了,他皈依了宗教。圣奥古斯丁创立了奥古斯丁修会,被认为是天主教会最伟大的圣师之一。他的著作《忏悔录》被视为一部神学和哲学杰作。
教堂旁边的大型独立式塔楼经常被误认为是贾科莫·莱奥帕尔迪 (Giacomo Leopardi) 在他的诗《Il Passero Solitario》中永垂不朽的著名塔楼。这是一个很容易犯的错误。和其他许多人一样,我以为它是但事实上它只是一座古老的渡槽塔。从奥古斯丁回廊内部可以看到莱奥帕尔迪塔。