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, Italy. The church was originally dedicated to St Francis and commissioned, along with an adjacent Capuchin monastery, in 1576 by Cardinal Carlo Borromeo. It was consecrated in 1600. The monks remained in the monastery until expelled by the Napoleonic government in 1810. In 1824-1834, the church was refurbished by

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, and which led to a rededication to the two saints. The interior ceiling was decorated with paintings in the early 19th century by

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. on the right, an altarpiece houses a canvas depicting the ''Vision of the Holy Trinity before St Francis and St Gregory the Great''; this is one of the masterworks by

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, also called ''il Cerano''. The third chapel on the left has a late-baroque wooden statue of an ''Addolorata'', and 9 wax panels depicting ''Franciscan Miracles'' attributed to an unknown Neapolitan artist. The convent has had some reuse in this century by Franciscans. The

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of Capuchins are now re-established in the church and convent of San Francesco d'Assisi in the outskirts of town.Comune of Lecco
entry on church.

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