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The history:
Aron or arches saint, closet, that is, where writings came conserved, torah, stone is constructed in Aragonese (stone local), rather than in wood, for which it is reason on which students of all the world they are confronted, is arranged inside of the Collegiata Church of the Saint Salvatore di Agira (Enna) near the sinagoga that it rose in full Arabic quarter. A symbol Hebrew accommodated in a catholic church to testify, today like 500 years ago, a tolerance and integration between the religious ones, the catholic, Jewish and the Muslim. To a hundred of meters of the collegiata one the ruderi of an oratory belonged to the confraternita one of Croce Saint exist, are known with certainty that till 31 March 1492, day in which Ferdinand the Catholic emanated the editto of Grenade with which expelled the Hebrew from all the territories that fell back under the Spanish jurisdiction, that place was the sinagoga of the giudaica community. “A true rarity in all the Mediterranean area” has asserted years ago the prof. Titta the Jacono de Malach president of the International Institute of Jewish Culture deep conoscitore of the sicialian ebraismo. Agira, therefore, unfolds its tows and flies hard high of its history, a place where they would have cohabited pacifically Hebrew, muslim and catholic. Asher teaching Slah to the Jewish University of Gerusalemme, author of a book from the title it “Hebrew-sicilian Bibliography” testifies an crescent interest in the comparisons of the world Hebrew in Sicily. The dream to reconstruct the Santorum Saint to Agira has recalled also rabbi Stefano Di Mauro, chancellor of the Maimonides University of Florida has declared “the people Hebrew has a special and dangerous mission, that to carry the unit of God to the world”. The Hebrew in Sicily, seem, have lived in a privilege position. “The Jewish community of Enna was strong and held in great consideration” the archaeologist says Anna Maria Corradini who have studied antichi and unknown historical documents that would testify in the 1786 some recited ebraici songs in the course of the festeggiamenti in honor of the Saintest Maria of the Visitazione, female saint of Enna. While Supervising to the Cultural Assets of Enna tells already like of the Aron to the '900 beginnings of Monsignor Peter Sinopoli, honorary inspector of the district of Agira wrote of the Aron to Supervising of Siracusa the Paul Bears.
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Agira more hard finds again intact the symbol of its spiritualità: the Aron Has Kodesch, Saint Arca, of the Hebrew. The absolute rarity of medieval the archaeological medical report (the most ancient Aron d' Europe and only in stone in Sicily) and the religiosità of the site where the ruderi of the sinagoga rise, gives to a meaning detail to Agira as well as from candidarla like ideal distance of the memory of the Hebrew in Sicily and to being crib of Mediterranean a Koinè new. The Aron testifies the resetting of the sicialian identity with one of its roots, that giudaica, than, with to that Arab and Christian, it has constituted the specialty of the people of Sicily, people whom it has believed in the respect of the values of the three cultures. Watching the precious medical report the wealth of composite community can be understood, as 5 centuries had to be the little ones centers of the Sicily ago, where knew to cohabit to tight contact between various they population, before that logical perverse of politics of conquest and the sopraffazione more dynamic members deprived this earth of one of its.
Here some images of the medical report in these photos realized in July 2007
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Also prestigious New York Times has written of the Aron of Agira.. format pdf
