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Ignatius of Loyola", "Saint Francis Xavier" and "Monstrance Holy Heart of Jesus". On the top of the façade there is a marble crown in memory of the Spanish domination of
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In the middle of the monument, inside a niche of elliptical shape, they inserted the bust of Father
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Vincenzo Abbati (deceased in 1654); thanks to him they built the Jesuits' College, the
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There are two entrances: the main one is in piazza Ciullo and the side one in via
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and in 1767 completed its construction, which lasted 80 years on the whole, so people called it "the Church of
Patching".
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there is an altar which was first located in one of the side chapels (very presumably the chapel of the
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that met in the oratory of the students, on the ground floor of the
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statue inside a small chapel which is located next to the secondary church entrance in via
Mazzini.
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and the image of Annunziata. The circular font basin is decorated with
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The Jesuits' emblem represented in a marble inlay inside the Church.
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representing vegetable compositions and is surmounted by the
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