Opposite Sant'Angelo is the Church of San Pastore, erected probably in 1245, scaled down and completely renovated in the 18th century, when the beautiful painted lacunar ceiling was made; in the center is the Madonna and Child, St. Catherine and St. Philip Neri, a large octagonal canvas by an unknown Marattesque painter (late 17th cent.). On the counterfaçade are frescoes (14th cent.)recently (1991) and only partially freed from plaster. At the beginning of the right wall, a fresco depicts Our Lady of Mercy and Saints Francis, John the Evangelist, Paul...; on the same wall, surrounded by stucco, is a canvas depicting St. Teresa of Avila before the Crucifix, painted in 1941 by Sister Angelica Lapi; in the center of the left wall, also surrounded by stucco, a canvas depicting St. Rose of Lima, by Stefano Ciannavei (18th-19th cent.); in the chancel: altar and altarpiece supports of onyx (designed by architect Ciucci); canvas depicting Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Sister Lapi, 1939). Through the left door one reaches a room behind the church, where in one wall one can admire fragments of three scenes from a fresco (14th cent., restored in the 1980s): Annunciation (only the Madonna), Deposition, St. Anthony the Abbot. In the choir room, arranged on the second floor of the semicircular portico erected in 1736 to a design by Luzio Bonomi, one can admire and venerate: a miraculous Madonnina (17th-century canvas) and Our Lady of the Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Catherine (on either side the 15 Mysteries of the Rosary), a manner by Guerrieri of Fossombrone (17th century). Leaving the church, having traveled a few meters of a short descent, you are before the Mother-House of the Teresian Sisters, whose monumental parlor is another fine work by Bonomi.

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