santuario, diocesano, Sant'Antonio di Padova

In 1427, a papal bull commissioned the Friars Minor of Sant’Antonio di Padova to build a convent in the territory of Teano. The friars rejected the noisy lower town, seeking the peace and silence Saint Francis had urged. They petitioned the Galluccio family, local lords, for land atop the hill south of the city; the Galluccio enthusiastically granted them the site and substantial surrounding holdings. The core convent, cloister, refectory, and cells, was completed within a year, and the complex was dedicated to the Saint of Padua in 1428. In 2022, the bishop confirmed it as a diocesan sanctuary.

Little remains of that earliest phase. The cloister endures, along with the “Trenetate,” the primitive chapel upon which the church was built, the sole surviving trace of the Gothic period. Discovered only decades ago, having been long obliterated by a confessional, it offers a rare glimpse of the medieval origins beneath later additions.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.