Church of S. Antonio from Padova

The small Church of S. Antonio from Padova, in the hamlet of Garrufo, has an aspect due to the reconstruction of the early twentieth century.

Of the original sixteenth-century structure only the ossuary and, above the left side entrance, the epigraph dedicated to D Antonio Bartolomeo Rozzi.

In 1577 the canons of the Collegiate Church of S. Pietro of Campovalano entrusted Rozzi with the care of the disappeared Church of S. Lorenzo of Garrufo. Pope Gregory XIII on February 13 of the same year. The Rozzi noble family from Campania donated it to the population in 1584.

Inside there is a remarkable group of polychrome clay statues, equipped with movable hands and inspired by Aquilan Renaissance models, works of the Nocellese school: a Madonna enthroned with the Child, S Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Alexandria.