Symbol of faith and hope in man. Cannon shells from the battleship Andrea Doria used to make a baptismal font, the pulpit made from the remains of two British warships, rifles that make up the crucifix, soldiers' jars used as planters, weapons and bombs that cry out for life.
The Temple of Fraternity is a church-sacrarium inaugurated on 20 September 1958, commissioned by Don Adamo Accosa, a military chaplain who survived the Second World War.
History of the Temple of Fraternity
A church was to be built in the small village of Cella, 700 metres above sea level. The ruins of a conflict were used to create a symbol of brotherhood between people.
Don Adamo found important support and encouragement in his work. That of Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXII, who in 1952 sent the first stone from a church destroyed during the Normandy landings. This first find was joined by many others from Berlin, London, Dresden, Warsaw, Monte Cassino, El Alamein, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From Milan came some of the spires of the Duomo, which fell during the bombing of August 1943, and part of the floor of the Duomo itself, which now covers the entire presbytery of the Cella Temple.
Inside the church, as in a museum, there are also many objects: uniforms, flasks, ammunition and a collection of soil and sand from all over the world.
