The Sacristy is a seventeenth-century or early eighteenth-century construction, divided into four bays, alternating in size (two large, square, and two smaller, rectangular) and covered by ribbed and barrel vaults, lunette.
All around a continuous theory of built-in wooden cabinets, now empty, testifying to the large number of priests once officiating, who used them. On the walls you can admire: a wooden Crucifix from the Baroque period; a large canvas «The Exaltation of the Cross», coming from the overlying Cappellone, blackened and barely legible, and two portraits of Bishops. The largest reproduces the likeness of Mons. Giuseppe Maria Mucedola, bishop of Conversano, 1849-1865, Venetian by birth and remembered as an ardent patriot and supporter of the unity of Italy; the smallest, those of Monsignor Giovanni Luigi Spilotros, Putignanese, 1806-1877, Carmelite and bishop of Tricarico. Who, held in great esteem in the Vatican for his great talents and for his profound culture in the field of theology, of which he was a professor at the Roman University, held the position of Domestic Prelate of Pius IX and Assistant to the Throne Pontifical, and, as a Consultor, participated in Vatican Council I.
All around a continuous theory of built-in wooden cabinets, now empty, testifying to the large number of priests once officiating, who used them. On the walls you can admire: a wooden Crucifix from the Baroque period; a large canvas «The Exaltation of the Cross», coming from the overlying Cappellone, blackened and barely legible, and two portraits of Bishops. The largest reproduces the likeness of Mons. Giuseppe Maria Mucedola, bishop of Conversano, 1849-1865, Venetian by birth and remembered as an ardent patriot and supporter of the unity of Italy; the smallest, those of Monsignor Giovanni Luigi Spilotros, Putignanese, 1806-1877, Carmelite and bishop of Tricarico. Who, held in great esteem in the Vatican for his great talents and for his profound culture in the field of theology, of which he was a professor at the Roman University, held the position of Domestic Prelate of Pius IX and Assistant to the Throne Pontifical, and, as a Consultor, participated in Vatican Council I.
A small canvas that is very interesting for its historical-celebratory content is still admired. It is the sketch of the canvas (m. 6x4) depicting «The promulgation of the Code of Canon Law» by the Putignanese painter Cesare Antonelli (1857-1940), commissioned from him by Pope Benedict XV and kept in the Ducal room in the Vatican. Cardinal Gasparri is seen in the moment in which he delivers the first copy of the new Code to the Pope, in the presence of the Pontifical Court and the members of the Commission for Codification. This work was completed in 1920