Mount of the Dead Church
It was born as a chapel owned by a charitable lay institution, Monte dei Morti. Much of the historical information does not concern so much the chapel, but rather this philanthropic association, born with the aim of reaching out to the weaker classes of the country, who resorted to it to ask for loans.
It is assumed that the foundation of the Institution dates back to the first decades of the 1600s, by the spouses Benedetto de Benedictis and Faustina Santamaria.
In 1647, husband and wife gave Prince Cesare Miroballo and his son Giuseppe the Church of Monte dei Morti with all the income: censuses, rents of houses, vegetable gardens, land, olive groves and ditches.
Over time, Monte dei Morti continued to acquire various properties, the income from which was used for the charitable purposes of the foundation and which had aroused the interest of the University.
The latter attempted, during the eighteenth century, to take possession of the assets of the Monte, which remained independent of the local authority and increasingly linked to the baronial house which provided for the maintenance and increase of the institution.
Following the Concordat between the Holy See and the King of Naples, in 1741 the ecclesiastical assets were traced in a land register and in 1859 the Piedmontese Law ordered the birth, in each Municipality, of the Congregations of Charity.
These continued to administer the goods of the poor until 1937, when all their assets were transferred to municipal bodies.
Thus ended the philanthropic institution of Pomarico.
