The heart of the FAI (Italian Environment Fund) is located on a mountain called Monte Visciano until 1601, which, when it became the property of the RR. PP., changed its name to Camaldoli.
From the foundation tables we learn that a Nolan patrician, Pompeo Fellecchia, a pious and charitable man, had a brother, Serafino who, after graduating in law at the University of Naples, wore the Camaldolese habit in the hermitage of RUA, near Padua, where in 1584, he took religious vows. In 1601, Don Serafi read more
The heart of the FAI (Italian Environment Fund) is located on a mountain called Monte Visciano until 1601, which, when it became the property of the RR. PP., changed its name to Camaldoli.
From the foundation tables we learn that a Nolan patrician, Pompeo Fellecchia, a pious and charitable man, had a brother, Serafino who, after graduating in law at the University of Naples, wore the Camaldolese habit in the hermitage of RUA, near Padua, where in 1584, he took religious vows. In 1601, Don Serafino was in the capacity of Prior in the Eremo dell'Incoronata (Diocese of Benevento), when his beloved brother Pompeo died, in homage to him, he bequeathed to the Eremo dell'Incoronata, a large part of his property, on the condition that a Camaldolese Hermitage be built near Nola.
On the door of the Church there is a stone inscription placed there by the monks in perpetual praise of the Founder of the hermitage Pompeo Fellecchia, dated ANNO SACRO MDLXII. The Church has a single nave without a transept, the floor is in Carrara and Portovenere marble, with a square design and is dated 1731. The high altar is by the sculptor Giuseppe Sammartino and his students (18th century), in marble and gilded bronzes. Five canvases of little artistic value adorn the Choir and the Door of the Temple, while a wooden statue of the Virgin, by an unknown artist, is placed high up on the central wall. read less
