Vincenzo Regina

In the former premises of the Oratory of the Confraternity of Santissimo Sacramento (Very Holy Sacrament). In the hall of the old Oratory, with a modern and appropriate lighting system, they have arranged, all by date, paintings, statues, Church furnishings, vestments dating back to the beginning of the 15th century and the second half of the 19th century.

In 2007, he published a new book with the title L'associazione antiracket e antiusura alcamese. Istituzione provvidenziale, an answer to the decalogue of the "perfect Mafioso" who discovered inside the den of the boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo. In 2004, he had published another book along the same lines: Arpie del racket. Vampiri dell'usura with documents on the foundation of the Associazione Antiracket e Antiusura of Alcamo.

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.

He was a figure of the clergy in Alcamo. He was ordained a priest in December 1932, when Alcamo still belonged to the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo. He devoted himself to believers and studies, he also taught Letters at the Gymnasium for three years and dogmatic theology in the seminary of Mazara del Vallo from 1937 until 1944.

Monsignor Vincenzo Regina (Alcamo, 9 May 1910 – Alcamo, 3 August 2009) was an Italian presbyter and historian.