Museo Diocesano San Sebastiano di Cuneo

San Sebastiano Diocesan Museum in Cuneo is located in Contrada Mondovì, in the picturesque historic centre: the Contrada is a quiet pedestrian area with arcades and shops. The exhibition focuses on works pertaining to the San Sebastiano complex. The proposed itinerary passes through the devotions of the ancient Confraternity and thus recounts a significant piece of spirituality, history and society. It starts from the ancient medieval dedication to St. James, to the richness that pilgrims, pilgrimages and routes constituted, passing through the veneration of the saints' relics. In the 16th century, the ancient confraternity merged with that of St Sebastian, protector against the plague. The subsequent Catholic reform coincides with the Baroque period, expressed locally through the cult of the Madonna del Carmine, processions and a renewed interpretation of the Church. The Confraternity is an active witness and capable of expressing itself by looking at both the ancient saints (even starting from the catacombs) and the contemporary ones that point to the new urgencies in the society of the time in which to serve Christ, and it collects the works of the suppressed orders as well as the emerging "social" drives. The passage of Pius VII marked the constitution of the Diocese of Cuneo and the new ecclesial reorganisation.