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The monastery of Santa Maria di Gerusalemme, with the annexed church of the Manger, become in the 1539 center of a group of "cappuccino",it was said of the Trentatrè (thirtythree), from the number of nuns that could be accommodated in It, and obvious call to the years of Christ. The nuns belonged to a order of recent creation, the order of the "Francescane del Terz'Ordine", wanted by San Gaetano of which he was the founder and Maria Longo, who created the "Ospedale degli incurabili". In 1585, pulled down the original church of the Manger during the construction of the chiostro, was erected a second church, demolished in 1600 to make place to the church of today. The inside of the building, extremely simple, conserves a decoration of XVIII century. On the greater altar there is a table of XVI century that represents the "Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio" framed in a wooden crown of late-baroque taste. Of the same age the "Presentazione al Tempio di Maria", placed up on the eardrum. In the entrance hall of the monastery there is a cycle of frescoes by Andrea Malinconico (1770)
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