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Church · Montecorvino Rovella (SA)

Church of Santa Sofia in Montecorvino Rovella

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 303 m
Pictured: Montecorvino Rovella · Liberotag73 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

A church with an adjoining former Carmelite convent from 1719, where a relic of Saint Reparata is venerated.

The Church of Santa Sofia was built thanks to Francescantonio D'Enza, who left his entire inheritance to found it. A relic of Saint Reparata is venerated here. Beside it stood a convent founded in 1719 and inhabited by enclosed Carmelite nuns, which remained in use, also as a school, until 1978.The convent complex was destroyed by the 1980 earthquake and has since been rebuilt. We like recalling a curious page of history: for a time the convent housed the Neapolitan noblewoman Luisa Sanfelice, sent here as a punishment. We recommend stopping in front of the church to imagine these events.

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