The 22 March 1625, almost eight months after the discovery of the bones of St. Rosalia in the grotto of Monte Pellegrino in Palermo, they came to Bivona, thanks to the Jesuits, some bone fragments kept in a precious reliquary bust in silver, by an unknown silversmith in Palermo. The Chronicles and the testimony of the Jesuit Father Cascini Jordan, who came to Bivona in those days, telling in detail the solemn celebrations that took place to welcome the relics of the Holy Bivona so venerated in many centuries. It should be noted that the procession which accompanied the shrine came from Palermo to the upper part of the country, namely in the Capuchin monastery where there was the access routes to and Palazzo Adriano Palermo. All bivonesi and fraternities gathered close to the Capuchins and the Brotherhood of St. Rosalie brought even the Vara up to the holy Capuchin to worthily receive the relic. Then in a procession to the Church of S. Rosalia for a short stop (the church was under restoration and therefore the relic could not stay in that church for exposure to the faithful) to the Church of S. John the Baptist-who at that time acted as the Mother Church on the current-Piazza S. John (Mon chianu).
The precious relic was stolen in 1982 and never found. In 1989 he was made a new golden reliquary shaped like a monstrance architecture according to a typology which refers all'ostensorio neo-Gothic Church of St. Lucia and St. John's Purgatory Gemini. The new shrine features three figures: the ends Saints Peter and Paul, at the top center of the Sacred Heart of Jesus might have been more appropriate to perform a copy of the stolen silver bust perhaps modeled on that of St. Madrice Stefano Quisquina stolen or otherwise similar to that following the testimonies of the faithful.
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