Immacolata Concezione ("Immaculate Conception", Italian: ''Chiesa dell'Immacolata''), also called the ''Convent of the Cappuccini'', is a

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church located on Piazza Umberto I in the town of

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in the region of Molise, Italy.

History

In 1679, the church and convent of the Capuchins was erected upon the ruins of the former Convent of the

Celestine Order The Celestines were a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244. At the foundation of the new rule, they were called Hermits of St Damiano, or Moronites (or Murronites), and did not assume the appellation of C ...

. The austere stone facade, rusticated inferiorly, has bronze doors; the lunettes above have a relief depicting the ''Immaculate Conception and Jesus'' by the sculptor

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. On the roof of the main entrance is a much restored fresco of ''St Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata'' (1696) by an unknown painter. The church also has a painting of the ''Immaculate Conception with the Holy Spirit and St Joseph and Saints'' (1685) by

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.Pro Loco Riccia
entry on Chiesa della Concezione.

References

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