History

The monastery has a very old origin; it was built by Saint Francis in the century during a pilgrimage from Assisi to Loreto.

On the porch can be admired a fresco from the XIII and XV centuries, which allustrated the most important episodes of the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Here you be able to see the fresco who celebrates the official birth of the religious order of the Friars Minorities with the visit which the Saint and his followers made in 1200 to Rome to the Pope Innocenzo III who gave his word setting the Rules.

Close to the monastery, still remains the well where Saint Francis converted the water into wine to refresh the tired workman for the long hours of work.

The monastery has a very old origin; it was built by Saint Francis in the century during a pilgrimage from Assisi to Loreto. It is said that the Earl of Varano gave the land to Saint Francis so he could build a resting place for the many followers that every year visited the Loreto's sanctuary

After having been a Franciscan monastery it became a lazaretto until, at the end of the XIX century, was sold by Napoleon as well as the clerical goods; finally the monastery was bought by Sante Rosi a priest from the nearby Camerino.

"HAEC IMAGO
QUAM VENERARIS
PRECIBUS DIVI FRANCISCI
CONVERTIT AQUAM PUTEI
IN OPTIMUN VINUM
MCCXV"
"This image that you venerate, for the prayer of Saint Francis, changed the water of the well into excellent wine, year 1200"
Inscription at the bottom of the cross in front of which the Saint prayed before the miracle.