Church of Saint Pellegrino Ripe

Saint Pellegrino bishop and martyr is the titular of the parish church and is also the patron saint of the parish: on 1 May the election of Saint Pellegrino is celebrated as the main protector of Ripe. The church houses the relics of Saint John Paul II.
The construction of the current parish church of San Pellegrino dates back to 1785: it is the fourth church in temporal order that is built in this area. The first available evidence is in fact those relating to a parish existing since the eleventh century. The second construction phase, in which the church is already dedicated to San Pellegrino, dates back to 1400-1600. In 1643 this building was demolished and replaced by another building that, after a century of life, in 1750, proved to be unsuitable to contain the number of inhabitants of the village. In 1781 work began on the fourth and last church, which ended in 1785. The church is located along the main road that leads to the village. The facade has two orders, and on the right is the bell tower. Inside, the building has a space almost completely occupied by the central nave, which widens, through two large arches on each side, in as many false naves. The main altar preserves the statue of San Pellegrino, set in a massive golden frame. In the first altar on the right is the canvas from the church of San Rocco depicting the Madonna del Carmine and Saints Rocco and Sebastiano; you then approach the chapel of the Crucifix, covered with precious marble, where in addition to the wooden work of the seventeenth century is preserved in a niche the Virgin of Sorrows, while in the vault is reproduced in fresco the Eternal Father contemplating the Son. In the left aisle the chapels are both dedicated to the Virgin, with the painting of Our Lady of Help, venerated by the community of Ripe since 1790, and that of Our Lady of the Rosary, from the early eighteenth century. At the center of the apse is represented Jesus with the Angels, while the previous altarpiece, the Madonna with the Child, S. Pellegrino and S. Filippo Neri, is now placed in the right wall of the Presbytery. The mentioned painting of the Madonna del Carmine and Saints Rocco and Sebastiano di Anonimo, is on the first altar of the parish church of San Pellegrino. The altarpiece is of the Marche school of the fifteenth or sixteenth century. and comes from the ancient church of San Rocco, built in 1683 by Lucangelo Saginati and his wife Angela with the burden of necessary furnishings and an office on the feast of San Rocco (August 16 anniversary).