Sant'Antonio di Padova, Acireale
Sant'Antonio di Padova  is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic parish church located on via Vittorio Emanuele in central Acireale in the region of Sicily of Italy. History and Description

A church at the site was built after the plague of 1466, and dedicated to St Sebastian. There was likely an oratory at the site where the church was erected. When a new onslaught of the plague afflicted the town late in the next century, a new church was commissioned. This church was consecrated in 1652 to Saint Anthony of Padua. The 1693 Sicily earthquake nearly razed the entire structure. The present church with a single nave houses frescoes started by Pietro Paolo Vasta. In 1755, while frescoing the central nave with the Glory of St. Anthony he was afflicted with a stroke. The wall frescoes were completed by his son Alessandro. References

17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Roman Catholic churches in Acireale