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The Monastery of S.Maria of Purity was the latest monastery papal cloister in the Diocese of Nocera dé Pagani that took the name of S.Maria della Purità by a beautiful image on canvas of the School of Murillo, came as a gift from the Vicerè of Naples Fernando Gioacchino Fajardo, Marquis of Los Velez, representing the Madonna and Child, which dominates on the high altar, as the glorious memories that preserves its first residential, lived with a reputation for holiness.

The mother Serafina, native of Anacapri and founder of seven monasteries. The 11 of October 1681 were veiled from bishop of epoch, Mons. Felice Gabrielli, the firsts monarchs.

The transfer of picture happened the 13th May 1682 with a solemn procession from to church of the Jesus Christ body to church of monastery. The history told that there're been lot of graces that the virgin Mary lavished.

One day, the Ven Serafina's mother was in meditation in front of the picture were he believed to hear a voice: "Ecce Puritas Mea". Seemed an indication for the title to be given to the Madonna depicted, and the servant of God, who delighted in painting, he wrote the words on a tape that runs between the two figures.

Since then, the picture took the name of Santa Maria of Purity and the same Church and the Monastery was given the title of Santa Maria della Purità, as still are called.

For over 300 years, the picture was surrounded by an uninterrupted worship and great devotion by the population.

Since of the origin of the Monastery, Sisters venerated a seventeenth-century wooden statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague. The sacred image had been donated to the Prioress, Mother Giuseppa, the Marchesina Angelica of the Principles of Family Gerace, while he was recovering nell'Ospedale of Naples, with the promise that was exposed to Church to worship of the faithful. The Sisters, favoring the will of the Marchesina, placed in the veneration of the Infant Jesus statue in a canopy on the left, into the Church.

After the departure of the Sisters of Pagani August 19 1976, Mons.Jolando Nuzzo f.m., Bishop of Nocera Dei Pagani, expressed desire for the nuns, gave the Church and Monastery at Pia suffering people Jesus.

Today, the monastery attached to the Church, elevated to the dignity of the Sanctuary of the Infant Jesus of Prague, is an Artistic-Architectural and Historical Monumental Complex, used as a Center for Spirituality and Religious Tourism and Hospitality, and Head of the Opera.

On 7 May 1983, during the celebration of the centenary of the arrival of picture Madonna of Purity, Ven.le the Holy Father John Paul II was crowned "Nomine at Auctoritate Summi Pontificis" the sacred image of Madonna of Purity, which currently , enthroned on the high altar of the Church.

The 23 June 1999, the seventeenth-century wooden image of the Child Jesus of Prague was crowned by Pope John Paul II, on the application of our Ecc.mo Bishop, Mons.Gioacchino Illiano. Back from Rome, the Christ child received by the Mayor, at Palazzo San Carlo, the Keys of the City of Pagani.

The beautiful Church, the prelude to the baroque, built over the chapel dedicated to SS. Felice martyrs and Constance martyred under Nero in 67 AD, has a plant in seventeenth-century nave with side chapels, and is richly decorated with stucco and frames, canvases and the '600 and '700 napoletano frescoes in the vault, The Church also , is adorned and enriched by "Gelosie wooden gold" and a beautiful and classic tiled floor eighteenth, crafts napoletano work - "the reggiola of Naples - with a beautiful central medallion, surrounded by the edge tiles worked hand faux malachite and unique in the diocese.

The front of Church, one of the most beautiful of Pagani, if not the most beautiful, shows in its three sumptuous, decorated with plants, cartouches and scrolls, while the portal, stone piperno is dominated by an oval with the Madonna and Child (Madonna of Purity)

The Monastery has a rectangular building with the Cloister at the center and the Church set against a side of the square, surrounded by a large and thriving citrus grove. It has two floors above ground and the entrance from the street From the filtrate was with the wheels and the parlor. On the ground floor there are rooms for meetings, chapel, kitchen, dining and laundry.
Upstairs there are rooms for guests, served by a corridor of distribution, with all services and a rich library with valuable books and manuscripts. Both horizons are arm. The roofing are roofs with wooden structures and mantle of tiles.

All of the Monumental Complex, rectangular in shape, is an oasis garden, where the spirit will dive for the contemplation of God.

The Church, with its rich Baroque and classical forms, and the Monastery, with the portal stone piperno dominated by an oval, representing St. Teresa of Avila, having chosen the Sisters of the Holy Rule: "Discalced Carmelites, are an important element that enriches the urban scene in which it is.