Cathedral of Ragusa: 7 Chapel of the Beheading of St. John
The chapel is called of the "Beheading" because originally there was a work on the altar, now lost, which represented the scene of the martyrdom of the Baptist, also taken up in the relief on the frontal. On the marble altar stands out the painting of San Giovanni, by Paolo Vetri from 1906, which depicts the holy martyr in the desert next to a little girl who embraces the Lamb, the Marquis Schininà, an ex voto from the mother for the grace received for the healing of her daughter . On the side walls there are two high reliefs: on the left Zacharias in the act of imposing the name of John, on the right the scene of the Beheading of the Baptist. On the vault, stuccos depicting: on the left the coat of arms of the bishop La Vecchia of Syracuse, on the right that of Pope Leo XIII. During the anniversary of the martyrdom, the chapel houses the reliquary arm of San Giovanni Battista, from the second half of the seventeenth century.
