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Convent of Colfano

Coordinates: 43°07′20.0″N 13°15′21.0″E / 43.122222°N 13.255833°E / 43.122222; 13.255833
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The Convento di Colfano of Convento di San Francesco di Colfano is a Franciscan order, Roman Catholic convent and church located in a rural site just off National road 502 (kilometer 66) outside of the town of Camporotondo di Fiastrone, province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.

History

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Tradition holds the convent was founded by Francis himself. The convent, as typical of many Franciscan convents, was located outside of the walls of the village, about a kilometer of road east of the hill-top town of Camporotondo, in the frazione of Colfano. The name of the neighborhood derives from mount of the Fanum, a rural pagan temple. Near the monastery, the Friars Minor of the convent maintain a hermitage with a Grotto of the Friars.[1]


The rustic stone church of San Francesco associated with the convent has an altarpiece depicting the Virgin of the Devotion (1490) by Nobilis De Luca.[2] It also houses a Crucifixion with the Virgin, Mary Magdalen, St John Evangelist, and St Francis also attributed to Nobilis, and a Holy Family,(1547) signed by Giovanni Andrea de Magistris.[3]

References

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43°07′20.0″N 13°15′21.0″E / 43.122222°N 13.255833°E / 43.122222; 13.255833