{"id":310643,"date":"2024-08-09T22:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/santa-fiora-church-of-santa-chiara-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:48:00","slug":"santa-fiora-church-of-santa-chiara","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/santa-fiora-church-of-santa-chiara\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Santa Chiara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Santa Chiara, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/santa-fiora\/\"><strong>Santa Fiora<\/strong><\/a>, was built in 1705 and houses a much-venerated 15th-century wooden crucifix, which is carried in procession every 3 May; it is believed to have belonged to Sister Passitea Crogi, a nun who founded the adjacent Capuchin convent between 1610 and 1612.<br \/>\nThe choir houses a ceramic depicting the Madonna and Child and several reliquaries, whilst the numerous votive offerings and sacred objects produced by the Poor Clares themselves are no longer on display; these are currently kept at the Diocesan Museum in Pitigliano.<br \/>\nSince 11 October 2003, the Church of Santa Chiara has also been dedicated to the Most Holy Crucifix and recognised as a sanctuary by Bishop Mario Meini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of Santa Chiara in Santa Fiora: built in 1705, it houses a 15th-century wooden crucifix and is now a sanctuary of great devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237599,"template":"","village-conntection":[51057],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76213,76210],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-310643","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-santa-fiora-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-grosseto-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-tuscany","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310643"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310643"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}