Chiesa del Cristo de La Subida

At La Subida, a church commemorates a 1597 episode in which a roadside crucifix was said to sweat. The event is preserved in the parish chronicle and became the starting point for the church's construction in the Collio hills.

Why it matters

According to the chronicle of Cormons vicar don Matteo Cisilin, the crucifix began to sweat on 23 July 1597, and the episode continued for about a month. The story drew the local community and clergy. Construction began soon afterward, and the first stone was laid in late August in the presence of Bernardino del Mestri and podestà Francesco Colusso. The event remains a local tradition; church authorities did not formally declare it miraculous.

What to notice

The church's devotional focus is the crucifix associated with the 1597 story. It is generally dated to the fifteenth or sixteenth century and is normally kept in the parish's sacred-art collection. The church is set among the woods, hills and vineyards of La Subida.

Context and history

A parish record from 1596 already refers to a church at La Subida “to be built,” suggesting that plans may have preceded the reported episode. Funding for the church came from local nobles, the Council of Twelve and the Cormons community. Documents from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries use the Marian dedication Madonna della Subida, while the church is also known as the church of the Crucifix. In 1702 the community commissioned a marble altar from architect Pasqualino Lazzarini.