The Collegiata Santo Stefano is a late-

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church in

Monte San Giusto Monte San Giusto is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about south of Ancona and about southeast of Macerata. Monte San Giusto borders the following municipalities: Corridonia, Monte Sa ...

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, region of the

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, Italy. The Collegiata was built from 1765 to 1781, using designs of Giovanni Battista Vassalli and Pietro Augustoni. The chapel of the Madonna Incoronata, patron of the city along with the saints Giusto and Tossano, holds a wooden 16th-century statue of the Madonna with the infant. One of the chapels holds a ''Madonna del Carmine and Saints'' painted by

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. Another chapel has an altarpiece depicting ''Saints Giusto and Tossano and the Madonna Lauretana'' by Domenico Rozzi. The apse has frescoes depicting the ''Life and Martyrdom of St Stephen'' (1927) by Ciro Pavisa.Parish of Santo Stefano
official website.

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Baroque architecture in Marche 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Roman Catholic churches completed in 1781

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