San Sperandio (1262)

Church next to the gates to number 3 Strada Sperandio	Remains from the cloister incorporated into the student residence at number 5 Strada Sperandio

The Blessed Santuccia Carabotti established the nunnery here in 1262 on land given to her by Sperandea Sperandei of Gubbio, who had established a hermitage here.  This seems to have been the first of the nunneries that Santuccia founded outside Gubbio.  It is possible that there were originally two separate communities on the site (San Sperandio and Santa Maria Maddalena Bulgazzano) that were later united into a single community.  

The 1279 statutes of Perugia mention San Sperandio.  In 1305, after the death of Santuccia, the sisters of San Sperandio swore obedience to the new abbess of their mother house, Santa Maria in Giulia, Rome.  This may be the date at which San Sperandio and Santa Maria Maddalena Bulgazzano became a singe community.

[There seems to have been an associated monastery nearby.]

Pope Paul III placed the nuns under the guidance of the monks of San Pietro in 1542, and this arrangement remained in place until 1702, when they returned to episcopal control.

The nunnery was suppressed in 1799 and its goods were transferred to the Collegio di Santa Anna (see Santa Maria degli Angeli).  The complex was demolished in 1805.

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