Descrizione
It was consecrated on 10 September 1604 by the patriarch Giovanni Grimani who was on a pastoral visit in Cadore. Subsequently, expansion works were carried out which ended in 1850 and brought the church to its current size with a fairly complex architectural structure consisting of three aligned bodies: the first characterized by a cross vault, the second and the third with elliptical vaults arranged orthogonally. The external decoration and most of the internal ones are due to the Peskoller brothers, belonging to a family of artists from Val Badia. The church is enriched by three wooden altars: the main one, with the altarpiece of the "Deposition", was commissioned in 1862 to Giovanni Maria Ghedini (1849-1882), director of the local School of Carving and Drawing, and replaced the old altar transferred to the chapel of S. Candido in Campo. The altar on the right wall of the nave dates back to 1711 and was built by "Mistro Marchio Mayer", an artist from Pusteria who also painted the altarpiece of the Souls in Purgatory placed on the counter-façade but which was originally part of this altar. In its place is now the canvas of the Madonna and Child between Saints Rocco and Sebastian, commissioned by the community of Zuel at the time of the seventeenth-century plague epidemic. The third altar, in black and gold wood, houses the "Cristo de Zuel". Tradition recalls that this crucifix, datable to the seventeenth century, was found in the summer of 1695 among the litter of a stable in Zuel and the discovery was immediately considered an almost miraculous event: the crucifix was carried to the church with great solemnity and placed in a specially built altar. The village's annual celebrations take place on August 16, the feast of St. Rocco.
Caretaker: Giorgio Dibona - 0436 867288