Church of Saints Maria Maddalena and Teresa





 The first religious building, a monastery, was named after Santa Maria Maddalena by a female section of the Order of the Humiliati. A document mentions it in 1343. The church was completely changed in 1584. In that year St. Charles Borromeo approved the plans to turn the monastery into a church and the new structure was identical to today's.

However, the building was changed for a new purpose. In 1854 Ancella Ghezzi inspired the foundation of a second institution of the nuns named Adoratrici Perpetue del SS Sacramento (the first one was founded in Rome in 1808). By a notary deed the ex-monastery of the Humiliati was bought, renewed and consecrated (1862) to St. Teresa of Avila.



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