HOSPITAL CATTELL OF 1771 IN PIAZZA ARMERINA

The cloister of the convent of St. Francis then Hospital Cattell in Piazza Armerina, Enna in Sicily In 1771 the cleric Michele Cattell in addition to found a "Monte lend me" (or pawnshop) to combat usury, obtains a new hospital named rich annuities name of Hospital Cattell (which will remain up to the present day).

The new hospital is established in the same building of the other St John of God's existing Hospital Fatebenefratelli fathers. The two hospitals, which have separate administrations, operate from 1780 as complementary institutions at the medical faculty of the Regia Accademia degli Studi di Piazza led by the Dominican fathers.

These have replaced the Jesuit priests deported from the Kingdom of Sicily in 1767, after 78 years after the creation of the University that saw them, except for the four years of closure due to the dispute Liparitana (1715-1719), always to his guidance.
The two hospitals include a few beds, 8 at most, and in a room next to the big door there is the wooden wheel for exposed (foundlings) with the Bell to warn the presence.

A similar wheel is still clearly visible inside right after the main entrance, of the Benedictine monastery of St. John the Evangelist.

HOSPITAL CATTELL OF 1771 IN PIAZZA ARMERINA

GAETANO MASUZZO, Piazza Armerina