The church of Jesus and Mary in Moricone was consecrated in 1639.
It is just a building shaped like a hut and its only decoration is the marble frame of the gateway.
The interior consists of a single nave with the ceiling in the shape of a covered barrel, with three side chapels.
The convent was built on behest of Prince Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, to host an order of nuns and their centre and to provide free girls education.
The convent was then looted by French troops of Napoleon, who sold it in 1810.
It returned to the Curia, and from 1839 hosts the Passionist Fathers.
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