Chiesa di Sant Agostino - Caccamo

The Church of S. Agostino is also called the Church of S. Isidoro .

The church was built in the seventeenth century and underwent several alterations and renovations in the twentieth century.

The sacred building was added to the monastery of the Augustinian Fathers . Traces of that period can be found in the painting of St Isidore Agricola by Matthias Stomer painted in 1641: the work came from the church of St Augustine and is today in the cathedral for security reasons. Stomer never signed his paintings, making an exception for the large canvas of St. Isidore , a testament to the value the painter himself placed on his work, believing it to be one of the fullest and most complete expressions of his artistic torment used to be. The whole, the variety of the figures, the precise relief of the details, the grandiose conception and harmony of the whole, make the painting one of Stomer's best works.

Two feasts are celebrated in the church: one in honor of Our Lady of Good Counsel , whose devotion is widespread in the Augustinian Order, and the other to Saint Rita of Cascia, the Augustinian Saint of Impossible Miracles.

There is much devotion to Saint Rita, she who is invoked and invoked by all for desperate cases , the mighty savior of the world. It was the Augustinian Fathers who introduced the devotion to Saint Rita and a Holy Mass was held every year on the 22nd with the blessing of roses.

Willem Vandenameele