GALILEE. - In medieval monasteries the name of g. was almost constantly given to the vestibule that connected the church with the outer atrium, with the cloister and with the cemetery.
It is found in a very simple form of a small rectangular hall in the monastery of St. Scholastica at Subiaco; those of the abbey of Farfa and of the cathedral of Durham were nearly identical. It was enlarged in the Cluniac monasteries, where, in the middle of the 12th century, it developed with a forepart of three naves, almost a small church (Chazy, Charité-sur-Loire, Vézelay). Its use is uncertain: it has been supposed that it was a processional station or that it served for penitents; it is more likely that it was a burial place for distinguished laypeople, and at the same time a place of waiting for the poor.
BibliographyG. Giovannoni, I monasteri di Subiaco, Rome 1904, p. 350.
BIBL.: G. Giovannoni, I monasteri di Subiaco, Rome 1904, p. 350.
Zocca, Mario. “Galilea.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1870–1871. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/galilea-3.
MLA
Zocca, Mario. “Galilea.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1870–1871. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/galilea-3.
BibTeX
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author = {Zocca, Mario},
title = {Galilea},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1870--1871},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/galilea-3}
}
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