Convento di Morcone Frati Cappuccini

It was the Convent that welcomed San Pio at the age of 15. While on vacation in the area, I took the opportunity to visit the church.

Wonderful place, of high spirituality. Wonderful welcome. Thanks Brothers

Beautiful place of peace. Highly recommended for those who follow the footsteps of Padre Pio.

Very nice convent, if you are in the area go and visit it, you will not regret.

Evocative place and well cared for by the friars. Here San Pio began his religious and faith journey. The signs of his passage in this convent are tangible. Excellent reception for the view of the convent by the friars. The visit is interesting. ?

Once you enter this place, you let yourself get caught up in an atmosphere of other times up to the 1600s, when the convent was built by the will of a local marquis following a vote that allowed him to face without no danger a long trip to Spain. The rooms are simply furnished, reflecting on the modest but mystical life lived by the friars of the convent and in particular by San Pio da Pietrelcina, who entered for his novitiate when he was little more than a teenager of 14 years. In these humble rooms one breathes an air of serenity, peace and warmth as in the common fire room, the only place where the friars could converse. The convent, located in the hills, overlooks a beautiful landscape characterized by trees and plants and from which one can enjoy the view of the Tammaro river and the artificial lake.

Morcone Name of the place: MORCONE Place name in Latin: Murgantia Church: SS. Filippo and Giacomo Parish: SS. Filippo and Giacomo Prov. religious: S. Angelo and P. Pio - Foggia Diocese: Benevento Circumscription civ .: Province of Benevento (Italy) Year of foundation Capuchin: May 27, 1603 Year of consecration of the church: 27 August 1690 Function of the convent: parish, it was always the novitiate house until 1981; postulancy house (1987-1994) Year of suppression (civil): 1867 Reopening: 1887 History: the convent of Morcone was opened in 1603 at the behest of the Marquis Giovanni Battista d’Aponte for a vow he had made. Provincial Minister was Fr. Francesco - Portuguese. It was built with the consent of the archbishop of Benevento. On behalf of the archbishop himself, Abbot Rainuccio attended the ceremony of the installation of the Cross, who officiated the rite of blessing the Cross itself. The ceremony took place on May 27, 1603. The convent was built next to an old church dedicated to Saints Philip and James. The new church, which took the existing title, was consecrated on August 20, 1690. From 1700 to the present day it has always been a place of novitiate, where many religious have been trained in the Franciscan ideal. Among these stand out the Servants of God Fr. Gabriel of Menton, p. Raffaele da S. Elia a Pianisi, p. Pio of Pietrelcina. It was suppressed in 1811 by the French government but reopened after a few years and resumed its role as a novitiate house. It was closed in 1867 due to the subversive law of the Italian government and bought back by some friars in 1887. There were difficulties of various kinds. Archdiocese of Benevento. Art: oil canvas of Our Lady of Sorrows, 18th century; statues of the Sacred Heart and St. Elizabeth, by the sculptor Stuffleser from Ortisei (1964); on the high altar there is an oil painting of the Eternal Father, and on the vault of the presbytery the Stigmatization of St. Francis, from the end of 1600. Oil painting of the Virgin offering the Child Jesus to St. Felice da Cantalice, work from 1700; on the right aisle, Altar of S. Felice da Cantalice, in inlaid wood from 1700; beside another wooden altar, that of S. Antonio di Padova, from the mid-1700s, by fr. Bernardino of Menton. In the cloister there is a painting of the Guardian Angel, from the late 1600s; in the refectory there are two lunettes: one with a fresco of the Madonna drawing water, from 1700, and the other with an oil painting on canvas of the Adoration of the Magi, both works are by unknown authors; in the staircase inside the convent there is the image of the Virgin of Sorrows, from 1700. Sources and bibliography: Capozzi Giuseppe, Historical-canonical memory of the Church of Morcone, Benevento 1844; Di Iorio (Father) Eduardo, The Capuchins of the religious province of Foggia or of S. Angelo in Puglia (1530-1986), Volume I-II, Campobasso 1986; Gabriele da Cerignola, Memory of the foundation of this province of ours by the Capuchins of s. Angelo and its places with a catalog of all the Vicars and Provincial Ministers who governed it from 1529-1667, manuscript, Provincial Archive Capp. Foggia; Latiano (Father) Bernardino da S. Giovanni Rotondo, Historical Memories of the Convents and Capuchins of the Monastic Province of S. Angelo, Benevento 1906; Tommaso (Father) from Morcone, Morcone, Historical framing of monographic elements, Morcone 1964; Triggiani Leonardo, The Capuchin Convents of Foggia, history and chronicle, ed. Voice of Padre Pio, S. Giovanni R. (FG) 1979; Salvatore Antonio (edited by), The Capuchins and Padre Pio in Morcone, Vol. XIV, Historical Archive of the Capuchin Friars Minor of Foggia.