Convento di Sant’ Antonio di Padova (1607)

Roman remains found here in the 19th century suggest that it might have been the site of a Temple of Hercules.

Rosata, the widow of Mariotto di Ludovico, established a community of Franciscan tertiaries here in 1490.  When she died in 1509, she left all of the goods of the community to that of San Quirico.  By the time of the Apostolic Visitation of 1573, the community at Sant' Antonio had regained its independence but was in great poverty, and the remaining sisters were forced to move to San Quirico.  

An inscription on the façade of the present church records that it was built in 1607, by which time the adjacent monastery was in private hands.  In 1612, Bishop Crescenzi arranged for the complex to be given to a the Third Order Regular of St Francis, which already had a convent next to Santa Maria sopra Minerva.  The order maintained both establishments until 1758, when they sold the latter convent and became concentrated at Sant’ Antonio. 

The community was suppressed in the 1810 and again, this time finally, in 1860, when some of the brothers moved to a house in Via San Paolo.  (It finally moved back to Santa Maria sopra Minerva in 1918).

The church and convent at Sant’ Antonio were adapted in 1990 to house a school.

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