Sasso Mobile

Interior visitable by appointment only. Call Anzola Parish, tel. +39051732011

The church of the Confortino, together with the oratory of Villa Pedrazzi, significantly demonstrates just how widespread the cult of the Saint of Assisi was throughout the local countryside in the 13th century. It was Confortino Conforti, the landowner of this territory that bears his name, who decreed in his 1294 will that a church dedicated to St. Francis be constructed on his property, along with a rectory and a monastery. Although the structure of the monastery has been greatly modified over time, traces of the original, late 13th century appearance of the church are still evident. It is still a rather austere-looking brick building with a gabled façade and a brick, ogee-arched doorway, an ornate diamond cornice surmounted by a false protiro (covered porch entry). In June of 2009 restoration work involving the entire building and the wooden altarpiece was completed. The restoration work has brought to life some significant fragments of frescoes which had long been hidden on the northside of the building. The first one on the left when you enter by the main doorway, from the 14th century, shows what remains of the figure of a man perusing a book, obliterated by a frame on top of it. The second shows an iconographic image of Christ being supported by angels, attributed to the late 15th century. Over the main altar we find a 18th century Sacred Conversation, painted on wood in the 16th century style.