This first edition of the Summer School will bring together nationally and internationally recognised experts such as Monsignor Giuseppe Liberto, former Director of the Capella Musicale Pontificia Sistina, Fr Giovanni Lombardo, Music Director at Messina Cathedral, Cav. Valerio Ciarocchi, lecturer at the San Tommaso Institute and member of the Italian Society of Musicology, and several other university lecturers such as Prof. Angelo Sindoni, Professor Emeritus of the University of Messina.
In the second week, various lecturers and experts will take turns inworkshops on sacred art and religious tourism for Shrines: Carmelite Friar Egidio Palumbo for iconology,Prof. Giustina Aceto for Musicology, Prof. Arianna Rotondo for Latin Rite sacred art, and archaeologist Prof. Katia Ingoglia, and other experts.
The participants come from various church and cultural backgrounds: students, pastoral leaders, parish choirs, oratory leaders The activities will take place in workshop mode for 8 hours of intensive daily work.
The main interest will be in the methodological approach, one which is interested in the real circumstances daily life, specially at a propitious time for spirituality in Italian shrines.
