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Sanctuary of Santa Maria dei Remedies

Corre l'anno di nostro Signore 1064, l'esercito normanno, reduce dalla vittoriosa campagna in terra di Calabria, muove baldanzoso verso la Trinacria. Giunto in vista di Palermo incontra un'accanita resistenza da parte dei Saraceni che occupano quel suolo da oltre 200 anni. Inizia un'estenuante assedio aggravato dai malanni che colpiscono le truppe a causa dalle punture di aracnidi che infestano gli attendamenti. Il Sovrano, uomo di grande fede, invoca la Madre Santa che in visione gli ordina di accendere dei fuochi che avrebbero eliminato il male. Il Re si affretta a porre in essere quel celeste rimedio, rivelatosi oltremodo efficace. Otto anni più tardi, cacciati gli arabi, l'illustre condottiero per ringraziare la Santa Vergine erige nel luogo del miracolo una Cappella sul cui frontespizio, si narra, viene scolpita la dedica che recita: "A Santa Maria dei Rimedi".

Il Sovrano era Ruggero I d'Altavilla, divenuto Gran Conte di Sicilia, la Cappella, che nel tempo è andata distrutta, segnò il sito in cui nel 1610 fu avviata la costruzione del complesso costituito dagli edifici del Convento dei Carmelitani Scalzi e dalla Chiesa (oggi Santuario) di Santa Maria dei Rimedi.

Il prospetto, facing east, is inspired by the Roman Mannerism.

The portal is attributed to the workshop Gagini.

plaster statue of Santa Teresa.

St. Joseph with baby Jesus.

The buttresses on the side of Corso Pisani Sanctuary.
On the other side you can admire the façade
former Convent of the Carmelites, now the Main
Military District of Palermo.

In the era of English domination, Don Juan Fernandez Pacheco, Marquis of Villena Y Ascalon, viceroy from 1608 to early 1611, asked the Pope of the time, Paul V, to grant him spiritual assistance of Father Dominic of Jesus and Mary had in high regard. The petition was heard. With Father Dominic, in 1609, came the first group of the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Palermo.
In 1610, the Carmelites had a roof under which officiate their own rites. Their life in the new buildings, however, was now quite troubled. The military authorities responsible for the nearby Royal Palace in fact, for security reasons, he asked insistently for expulsion. Sensitive request was the Viceroy Don Pedro y Velasco Giron, Duke of Osuna (took office in April 1611). The night before the eviction of religious Don Pedro dreamed that the Virgin told him to keep the monks there. The message made a deep impression on the English nobleman who has since pledged to support the monastery.

The altar with its sixteenth
statue of Our Lady of Remedies, school Gagini,
escaped during the Second World War
a bombing that destroyed the church that housed.
was donated in 1950 by Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini.

"Our Lady of Remedies"
venerated by the faithful who
approach using a ladder. Top
a mosaic
which is acknowledged by the Church itself, with a view of the city
Monte Pellegrino and the right of Mount Caramel.

the front of the altar in a circle with flames
recalls the grace granted by King Roger S. Virgin.
On the pillars, the sides, the marble busts of
Pius XII (Pope from 1939 to 1958)
and Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini (1888-1967).

The central chapel with an altar built in 1962.

Fresco which gives the illusion of the dome (nonexistent).

With the suppression of religious orders, the Church was freed from the cult. From 1866 to 1949 - devoid of art and religious objects and distorted in the original architectural lines - was in the readiness of the Armed Forces who were located in the adjoining barracks. In 1948, Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini (whose remains were buried inside the Sanctuary) was able, with unceasing work to restore the Temple to the faithful and five years later he decreed the change in status "Diocesan Marian Shrine."