San Giovanni in Parco

The Benedictine Cenabolo of S.Giovanni in Parco was formed around a church that already existed in the year 995 as reported in a document of the Cavense Code in which we read that this Peter certainly detects the rights on the S. John. The convent was run by the Benedictine monks of Montevergine who set up a hospital for the poor for the care and assistance of the sick. On the basis of a Federician document of 1220 which gives privileges to the "Hospitium Pauperum De Nuceria" for the use of the waters of the Rio Saltera dei Corvi, it is noted that this hospital is much older than the nearby hospice of Santa Caterina alla Rotonda. , which is mentioned for the first time in a document of 1296. The monastery was enlarged, and largely rebuilt, in 1640 by Pietro Ansalone. In the seventeenth century. the Cenobio passed from Priory to Abazia and on 9 October 17xx the Prior of San Giovanni was elevated to the office of Abbot. In the eighteenth century. a further restoration was carried out by Monsignor Nicola Letizia, former General of the Congregation of Montevergine and then Abbot of Nocera, first from 1751 to 1759 and then from 1763 to 1771. In addition to the enlargement of the church, fronted by a splendid staircase , in the restoration of 1759 a partial excavation of the rock at the base of the hill was also carried out for the regular construction of the internal cloister. After the suppression of 1806, and the expulsion of the monks from Nocera, the Cenobio passed to the state property, was sold on March 19, 1812 to Costantino Amato who in 1815, secretly and for one night only, welcomed King Gioacchino Murat on a visit to the nearby barracks. Used as a private residence and the old church demolished, today there remains the only apse on whose vault there is the fresco of San Guglielmo ... (Wiki)