Her sacred picture is normally in her sanctuary down at Custonaci, about 15 kilometres distant, but when any general calamity afflicts the district, it is brought up to the Matrice or Mother Church of the comune on Mount Eryx.
When the picture is on the mountain it is the custom for the women of the town to go to the Matrice in the evening to pray.
The light is better in the sanctuary than in the Matrice upon the Mountain, but this picture of the happy Mother with the Child at her breast holding three golden ears of corn did not thereby seem to gain as a work of art.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matrice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
