SS Sebastiano e Rocco

(early 15th century)

In 1484, the Confraternita di San Sebastiano e Rocco was given the small Edicola della Madonna della Pace on this site that housed a miraculous image of the Madonna.  They built the present church in the early 15th century.  A community of hermits lived beside the church from the mid 15th century, and it became a parish church when the nearby church of Sant’ Elisabetta (see Walk III) was demolished in 1903.

Madonna della Pace (15th century)

This detached fresco of the Madonna and Child is in the aedicule over the high altar, protected by a grill that extends across the width of the church.

Scenes from the lives  of SS Sebastian and Roch (1667)

St Roch cures a man who has the plague	Martyrdom of St Sebastian

Pietro Montanini, a member (and later Guardian) of the confraternity, painted these three large frescoes on the walls.

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