Santa Francesco is a

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

church in the town limits of

Trecate Trecate is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about east of Novara. It harbors a major refinery complex for fuels and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), serving ...

Province of Novara The province of Novara () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara. In 1992, the new province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola was created through the fusion of three geographical areas whic ...

Piedmont Piedmont ( ; ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the northwest Italy, Northwest of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the ...

, Italy.

History

Franciscans The Franciscans are a group of related organizations in the Catholic Church, founded or inspired by the Italian saint Francis of Assisi. They include three independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest conte ...

arrived to this town in 1494, and occupied a convent formerly of nuns of the Umiliati order. That convent had been established in the 13th-century. In 1514, the convent was assigned to the

. The church was rebuilt in the 17th century in its present layout. A 1985 restoration of the church uncovered frescoes (1595) attributed to il Cerano, depicting the ''Conversion of St Paul''. It is documented that the frescoes were commissioned by the Cicogna family from Trecate. The vault of the choir contains frescoes depicting ''Scenes from the Bible'' by Carlo Francesco Nuvolone.Province of Novara
tourist entry on Trecate.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Francesco Trecate Churches in Trecate 16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy