{"id":310845,"date":"2024-08-09T22:20:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/san-paolo-albanese-church-of-the-exaltation-of-the-santa-croce-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:19:14","slug":"san-paolo-albanese-church-of-the-exaltation-of-the-santa-croce","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/san-paolo-albanese-church-of-the-exaltation-of-the-santa-croce\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of the Exaltation of the Santa Croce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built in 1721 and following the Greek-Byzantine rite, the Church of the Exaltation of the Santa Croce, situated in Piazza Vittorio Veneto in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/san-paolo-albanese\/\"><strong>San Paolo Albanese<\/strong><\/a>, houses newly created Byzantine icons. It is particularly interesting to attend the Divine Liturgy, which is celebrated in Greek and Albanian.<\/p>\n<p>During the most recent restoration, a fresco was uncovered on an altar in the right-hand aisle, depicting a chalice containing a host. What makes it unique is that the host is not round but square and bears an inscription in Greek (Ies\u00f9s Crist\u00f2s Nik\u00e0): the presence of the Greek inscription and the square shape of the host allow us, without a shadow of a doubt, to state that the church was used to celebrate Mass in the Greek rite.<br \/>\nIn the local rite, the presence of statues of saints is not provided for, but only of icons: due to the mixing of rites that has taken place over the centuries, processions with statues are held in San Paolo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of the Exaltation of the Santa Croce in San Paolo Albanese, a place of worship following the Greek-Byzantine rite, featuring sacred icons and services in Greek and Albanian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86119,"template":"","village-conntection":[51047],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76403,76405],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-310845","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-san-paolo-albanese-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-basilicata-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-potenza-en","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310845","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\/310845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310845"},{"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=310845"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}