Vincenzo Regina

[1] He devoted himself to believers and studies,[2] he also taught Letters at the Gymnasium for three years and dogmatic theology in the seminary of Mazara del Vallo from 1937 until 1944.

[4] He was a consultant of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and published several tens of books on the history, arts and representative figures of Alcamo, handing down, in this way, a patrimony of information for young people.

Besides, thanks to his continual work of collecting, they could create the Sacred Art Museum in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption.

Istituzione provvidenziale, an answer to the decalogue of the "perfect Mafioso" who discovered inside the den of the boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo.

[6] These artworks were collected by monsignor Vincenzo Regina, archpriest from 1944 to 1991; in accordance with the suggestions of Second Vatican Council about the care and attention for the ecclesiastical artistic patrimony, after the 1968 Belice earthquake he started collecting various paintings, sculptures and works of different kind, coming from churches that were unfit for use.