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The Baroque Church was once dedicated to Saint Benedict, as well as the adjacent Convent that now houses the MED - Diocesan Ecclesiastical Museum.
The eighteenth-century building has very simple exteriors and has two entrances, one of which is today walled. The interior, with a single nave, has three Baroque altars and preserves the eighteenth-century decorations, several frescoes, paintings by Carlo Mastroponti and statues by Niccolò Quartarula.
At one time it was decorated with the enormous canvas of the "Elevation to the sky of Saint Benedict", now located in the Church of Saint Dominic, and the painting of the "Apparition of Jesus to Saint Benedict", both by the artist Troiano Giovanni Petruzzi. The church still houses the beautiful statue of Our Lady of Sorrows by Giacomo Colombo, which characterizes the Rites of Holy Week.
