It is near St. Andrew 's Marina , in Campo , near the stream Salubro . According to tradition it was built on the site where it was found a picture of the Virgin . It is difficult to date , but should pick up in the period of expansion of the Basilian in the 9th-10th century . The cult of the Assumption , in fact , was brought to the West from the East . The original title was to the Church of St. Martin , which is preserved in the nearby district . It presents a very simple structure , in a square shape of 10x13 meters . The altar facing east according to the Eastern usage , the atrium consists of three pillars . The church , in the early decades of the twelfth century to the Carthusian monks of the Carthusian monastery of Serra San Bruno . The earthquake of 1783 destroyed most . In the early nineteenth Baron Pier Nicola Scoppa took possession of the church when he bought the Grange Carthusian following the abolition of the property of religious orders in 1808 , by the will of Joachim Murat , King of Naples . Baron had the church rebuilt and made to paint , or renew , the picture of the Assumption . Baroness Scoppa subsequently granted donated the land and the church of St. Martin del Campo at the College of the Redemptorist Fathers , which she founded in 1898 . The Redemptorist Fathers did restore the church in 1964 , remaking make the picture of the Virgin and regreted the altar with marble brought from another church . On August 15 , the church celebrates the feast of the Assumption . In ancient times , during the festival , it took place also the exhibition of animals subsequently suppressed by the frequent fights between andreolesi and Ischia
earthquake of 1783
1783 Calabrian earthquakes
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