Chiesa di San Francesco di Assisi - Caccamo

This auditorium, a former church, is named after Mico Geraci.

Mico Geraci, Owl's trade unionist who was barbarously murdered by the Mafia outside his home on October 8, 1998 in Caccamo. A gruesome murder for which unfortunately no perpetrator has yet been identified.

In the interior is the Lorenzo D'Alessandro polyptych (15th century), the most important work that Lorenzo d'Alessandro left behind in Serrapetrona between 1485 and 1490. The polyptych was commissioned by the friars to tell the people with enchanting images the Mystery of the Redemption with in the center the Christ thrown from the cross (the Redeemer) and the Madonna and Child (the Coredemptrix). The large altarpiece (290 cm base and 465 cm height) consists of 26 panels, including small and large, 10 of which form the two orders or registers and the remaining 16, of much smaller dimensions, form the predella.

Inside the church is the organ made by Francesco Santilli , an artisan from a family of organ builders from Caldarola who worked almost exclusively in the hinterland of Macerata, who was actually dealing with a sort of remake of an old 17th-century organ that had been built as far back as the Church of Saint Francis and which was completed shortly before 1331.

Willem Vandenameele