OSPEDALE DI PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA IN 1444-1583

According to hospital transfer of Piazza Armerina Enna in 1444-1444 1583

Nel Graziana, daughter of the noble Gali Villardita, makes transferring the hospital for the sick of s. Calogero and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, founded by his mother in 1420, on the floor of St. Joseph.

This transfer is due to the need for a bigger hospital and with a church next door large and functional.
These requirements respond the building of strata of la carrera that is in communication with the neighbouring church of Saints Philip and James.
Here the hospital continues to be named the Hospital of s. Calogero and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, run by the brothers Hospitallers of the order of Saint James of Altopascio.

At this time you need a bigger hospital because the population is close to 10,000 inhabitants. About ten years later, in 1454, and again in 1460, the nth plagues and the inevitable famine, will reduce the inhabitants to almost 8,000.

In the building where is hosted the hospital, in 1583, you will move to the Augustinian Fathers of the province of Sicily from the headquarters in via Madonna della Facciranna al Monte (via Madonna della Stella) and will transform the Church of Saints Philip and James in that of St. Augustine.

OSPEDALE DI PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA IN 1444-1583

GAETANO MASUZZO, Piazza Armerina