The Moorish Christ in Santa Maria in Castello in Genoa.
This beautiful wooden crucifix, called Moorish for the dark color of the wood used, is one of the works in the beautiful church that impressed me the most.
Its history is very particular: during a restoration in the middle of the last century it was discovered that many elements of the statue (such as the beard and long hair) were fake and were not part of the original work; it was decided to remove them to bring the Christ back to the original. But since the faithful were so used to seeing the statue with those elements it was decided to make a copy (still present in the church).
Another beautiful story, of which I leave the links below, is the one that tells of betrayed loves that the statue remedied.
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-S 10-18.
To see all the photos I took in Santa Maria in Castello and its cloisters, click here:
This is the official website of the church: santamariadicastello.it.
The legend that speaks of the young girl betrayed by love and helped by this crucifix can be read on two of my favorite websites about Genoa: amezena.net and dearmissfletcher.com.
