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Antonio Orsini at the beginning of 1900 wrote: “The incoli gotten hold of the territory thought toast to erect a church, to toast made dedicating it to Saint Iacopo, than at first it went subject to the Archpriest of Pieve.” The only documents found again on the foundation of the church are two summaries of the beginning of century XVII that came produced in order to demonstrate the belongings of the patronage one that it implied also the right of election of the parish priest, to the “men of Renazzo”, term then always used in order to determine the heaies of the family. The first filler without to date, the foundation of the church dedicated initially to S.Antonio, to S.Giacomo and at last to S.Sebastiano, then realized from the men of Renazzo with the approval of cardinal Filippo Calandrini bishop of Bologna and to the presence of the bishop Siena of the aforesaid cardinal. To said of the Landi this elect church to S.Giacomo (Iacopo) it would be risen towards 1460, the year of the cession from the bishop of Bologna of the three quarters of the estate of the Malaffitto to the Pievesi and Centesi people. The date of the erection to parish is 1 june 1489 to work of the bishop of Urbino that held the place of the bishop of Bologna cardinal with the title it of saint Peter in Giuliano Ties of the Rovere, he who in 1503 will become Pope with the name of Giulio II. To that age a tie to obligated them to the citizens to pour to the parish priest, elect from they, the primizie of the grain and other things, and the new title to S.Sebastiano, as Saint and martyrdom to Rome between the end of the III and the beginning of IV the century d.C., is an obvious sign that was a parish before benefits. In fact this saint, often cited with to Fabiano, Rocco and Cristoforo in cases of serious epidemics jumps, us to the eyes for the epidemic big waves that repeated with frequency not much inferior for all XV the century and end towards 1530, as Lorenzo Of the Palm asserts. Initially the church of Renazzo was subordinate to Pieve of Saint Maria, prototype of all the churches of the zone, comprised those of Cento, and of this of it we have the tests near the parochial archives of Pieve of Cento, where the graphical of S.Sebastiano to Renazzo appears. The traces left from the church of Renazzo to its dawn are truly little, tryining between the notarial deeds of that age find a bequest to dated church 22 september 1494 where it came assigned for testament of Cristoforo of was Bartolomeo Borgatti. The parish priest of Renazzo was between first with to the chancellors of Corporeno, Malacompra and S.Maria of the Salice (Alberone) to join to the consortium of the communal priests of S.Biagio of Hundreds, equipped of a charter from 1527. In order to find other slight knowledge on the church we use the pastorali visits to Concilio of Trento, in particular that of 1574 that with the visit of Andrea Caligari, deputy of bishop Ranuzzo Farnese of 22 August 1565 informs that the Gerolamo chancellor Shoeing of years 46 had a parochial unearned income of 88 shield and that in the small and graceful church you the rests of the blessing and all the necessary one from the vestments resided, to the book of the weddings, the vase of pond for the Saint oil. Still it cites: ” All the parrocchiani are confessed and communicated, but the case of a public sinner persists: Giustino Villani that also being married holds near oneself a concubine pure married it from which it has had a daughter. Same I have surprised the two in a field and therefore, in order to remove the too much obvious scandal for the times, I order that the woman is sent far away 10 miles from the country and the man will have to avoid in future of having relations with she, with an ulterior pain of 200 shield of gold " figure who to the age was exorbitant, calculating exactly the yield of the entire parish of 88 shield of gold per year. To other we have them signals in “parva formosa ET” of 1573 and in the “5 Marchesina” of November of 1574. In the 1619 unearned income of the parish it was gone up to 200 shield of gold, the inhabitants were 701 of which 542 from communion. In the same period it was embellished from 3 frescoes of the local painter Giovanni Francisco Barbers, in art the Guercino, than to the age it had approximately 22-23 years painting the miracolo di S.Carlo Borromeo, while the representing others the two Madonna with the Child in throne with the saints Francisco, Antonio Abate and Bovo (stolen in 1978 and recovered in 1984) and the Madonna with the Child in Gloria with the Pancrazio saints and a saint monaca goes back to 1615. Others fresco seem that they were present but lost with the knocking down of the old church in 1751. In the 1856 parish priest then, don Masotti, marks it the presence of of a new image of the immaculate one. This statue was a stucco job executed from Francisco Fists and gold from Antonio Soriani. Returning to the vicissitudes of the church, it succeeds that in the half of the '700 it was in deprived of hope conditions, signallings made from the men of Renazzo to cardinal the legacy of Ferrara impose cardinal the Lambertini to a visit in 1733, visit that door to a drastic decision; to restore or to reconstruct? In the 1736 cardinal it only sends an expert in the city for a recognition, was Alfonso Torreggiani. Its relation informs the eclesiastico of serious conditions of the building and the bell tower, but since the men of Renazzo did not possess in that period the money in order to reconstruct the church, the more urgent participations imposed it at least, participations that piled to an expense of 2154 from Bologna Liras. In the reunion of the heaies of the family of 1 september 1743 it comes finally decided to begin to save for the reconstruction of the church, thus spring (the 20 you open them 1744) the men of Renazzo with to the mons. It saws to begin the reconstruction intense activities. Unfortunately the organization in order to gain the money for the intense activities door still ahead the initiative and the spring-summer of the 1745 demanded the ecclesiastical permissions in order to begin the intense activities, attributing to the Scholars the style decisions of the new church. Finally the 24 june 1745 we have puts down it of the first stone and the beginning of the intense activities. Nine years wanted in order to finish the 7 intense activities to us and February 1754 the vicario of Cento blessed the church and gave the way to the celebrations. In 1793 under the guide of Venturoli architect they began the intense activities for the construction of the high bell tower 52m., the most famous and best architect who but did not succeed to calculate the land well, thus finished the intense activities in 1799 and only some year after the building began to tilt itself. At the beginning about the 1800 it was believed to equip the bell tower to equip it of a powerful concert of lives some, were planned 4 lives some of the weight of 1850 pounds for the greater one, 1300 for the median one, 950 for the third and 600 for the small, for a total of 4700 pounds. The double quantity fused placed in 1819 (till the requisition in 1943 for war requirements of the fascist government) and soon came equipped also of a clock and in 1835 it came restored. In a 1855 epidemic of colera it obligated the men of Renazzo to the construction of a new cemetary, in fact it was from 1851 that this structure came defined no good, the intense activities ended in 1858 with the transfer of boneses from the old one to the new structure. In the 1863 wide public square that accommodated the old cemetary, it came used after public square. In order to complete the intense activities to the church, but, we must go in 1900, where don Domenico Gallerani (1929) convened a committee in order to proceed to the final phase of the restoration. Under the control of ingegner the Eligio Seas, the commission began 12 the completed intense activities November 1932 with the test.