San Giovanni Battista, San Martino Canavese

These records come from the parish of San Giovanni Battista which was part of the town of San Martino Canavese until 1929 when it became a hamlet of Castellamonte. (Via Centrale, 1 – Loc. San Giovanni Canavese, Castellamonte) San Martino Canavese has a rich heritage of churches: 9 buildings (there were 11 in the 19th century), which attest to the deep religiosity rooted in the population, especially in the past centuries. With a growing population a new church was needed in the late 18th century and so on January 24, 1787, the then bishop of Ivrea, Monsignor Giuseppe Ottavio Pochettini, proclaimed the erection of the small church that had the title of San Giovanni Battista (the one we have news of since the early 1600s) into a Parish. Don Francesco Roppolo from San Martino was appointed provost of the new parish. 

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