San Bernardino da Siena and the adjacent

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style church and convent respectively, located on Via Trento Trieste 20 in central

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San Bernardino da Siena Bernardino of Siena, OFM (8 September 138020 May 1444), also known as Bernardine, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his " bon ...

is the patron saint of Carpi.

History

The church was built in 1604 under the auspices of a confraternity, and was adorned with masterworks such as canvases by

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, and

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, all of which are now substituted by copies, the originals in the

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. However the original 18th-century altar with a reliquary bust (1857) of the title saint (by Giovanni Belleza), and smaller altarpieces remain including a ''Martyrdom of St Lawrence'' by

Jacopo Palma il Giovane Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

, a ''San Carlo Borromeo'' by Carlo Procaccini, and a canvas by Stefano Lemmi. The reliquary bust was donated in gratitude for passing of a cholera epidemic. The church was damaged by the

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, and reopened in March 2014 after a restoration directed by the architect Paolo Giubertoni. The church will serve as the church for the Missionari Servi dei Poveri, the Capuchin nunnery, and as a parish church.Tempo News
article on church re-opening.

References

External links

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Bernardino da Siena Bernardino of Siena, OFM (8 September 138020 May 1444), also known as Bernardine, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his " bon ...

Roman Catholic churches completed in 1604