The convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Morlupo is also known by the name of "Convent of Santa Maria Second" for a wooden panel depicting the Madonna with child, believed to be the 'second' Madonna painted by St. Luke.
The first monastery was built by the Clareni, or Fraticelli because they vowed to poverty, who built it in the thirteenth century.
Angelo Clareno (1245 - 1337) was a Franciscan friar of great learning who was excommunicated and then founded his own community that can be considered an independent Franciscan order.
The convent of Santa Maria Second incorporates this first structure and was recognised from 1494 as a Franciscan convent.
In the fresco on the right wall of the church is visible an image of the old Clareno centre. The monastery is built around the small cloister with a central well that still functions.
The convent was then expanded in 1628 when the aqueduct was built and, from 1636, for several years, San Carlo da Sezze trained here.
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