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THE CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA MADDALENA (CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE),
Via Casa di Ricovero - Treviso
 
 
In the history of Treviso, in the first decades of 15th century, we may find information about a Church dedicated to the cult of St. Mary Magdalene situated where today there is Porta St. Tomaso (Gate of St. Thomas).
The original church, belonged to Gerolimini friars, was destroyed in 1511 during the War of Cambrai; in that place the Porta San Tomaso (Gate of St. Thomas) was built using the same bricks for war requirements.
   
antonio nani's engraving chiesa santa maria maddalena st. mary magdalene
Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena
1846 - Antonio Nani’s engraving.
(Biblioteca Comunale di Treviso)

After a decade, the building works of today Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena (Church of St. Mary Magdalene) began by Fabrizio delle Tavole’s services, disciple of Palladio. In 1576 the construction ended with dedication of the church to St. Mary Magdalene, how it is written on a plaque, found lately indoors. In 1772 the Ursuline sisters took possession of the church and its convent.

Unlike many Trevisans Churches, this wasn’t the victim of the Napoleonic laws of 1806 because it was a vicarious church of the Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore (Church of St. Maria Maggiore). The convent was converted into rest home.

   
In 1971-72 some restoration works brought to original sobriety the church.
If we see its façade from the outside, the building remember us the façade of Church of St. Gaetano for its shape and its simplicity, while over the main door there is a seventeenth-century fresco representing the patron saint praying, it is almost deleted by time and by carelessness unfortunately.
 

The indoor space of Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena (Church of St. Mary Magdalene) - as many other Trevisans churches - is not very wide and developed in one hall with presbytery and two Lady Chapels; then there are other two chapels on every side of the Church.

On the walls of nave and of presbytery there are some paintings portraying the Biblical events as "Il passaggio del Mar Rosso" (The crossing of Red Sea), "Il Vitello d’oro" (The golden calf), "Il Banchetto in casa del fariseo" (The banquet at Pharisee’s house), all works made by Simone Forcellini in 1600, while "La risurrezione di Lazzaro" (The Lazzaro’s resurrection) was probably made by Antonio Molinari.

photos chiesa santa maria maddalena st. mary magdalene
 
 
Two niches accommodate the statues by Giovanni Melchiorri, precursor of Canova in pediment on background wall over side altars, these two statues were made in 1700 and they represent The Hope and The Faith.
There is the ancona (made by Paolo Veronese or by his school) is known as "Noli me tangere" on main altar, it represents Risen Christ appearing to Maddalena.
 
On left altar there is an ancona by Carletto Caliari, Paolo Veronese’s song; it portrays The Crucifixion, while on ancona of right altar there is another ancona representing The Holy Family, made probably by G. B. Canal.
When we enter, on the right side we may see an altar with an ancona with the picture of Benedetto XI by Jacopo Marieschi (18th century), it was in the Chiesa di San Bartolomeo (Church of St. Bartholomew) some century before and then it was brought to Chiesa Santa Maria Maddalena (Church of St. Mary Magdalene) and it was fitted in a new frame.
 
photo bell tower

The restoration works let to find a large grating on the right side; in the end of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century it divided the believers from nuns and from convent girls during the masses.

Thus they could be present at the ceremonies without being seen during the services in the Church.
The bell tower is admirable for its singleness: it is made by rough bricks from the outside. A series of pilasters fling the bell tower upright; two series of ring-shaped ornaments and the belfry with two Gothic double lancet windows.


On the left: the bell tower of the Chiesa Santa Maria Maddalena (Church of St. Mary Magdalene).