Immacolata e San Vincenzo

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Immacolata e San Vincenzo is a church with an adjacent convent in piazzetta San Vincenzo, in the Sanità quarter of Naples, Italy. It was founded in the 8th century by Father Gregorio Maria Rocco of Chiaia, on the site of an earlier church called Santa Maria di Nazareth. In 1758 the church and the houses on its left side were rebuilt in Baroque style from designs by Bartolomeo Vecchione. The catacombs hold the remains of people who died in the plague of 1656. Inside, a painting by Pietro Bardellino (1754) shows St. Vincenzo entrusting orphans to the Virgin. The presbytery was decorated with stucco in the 18th century and contains the tomb of Sabato Manso, the patron of the later reconstruction. The church was closed for worship in 1861, reopened in 1975, and deconsecrated in 1984. Since 2013 it houses the Nuovo Teatro Sanità, a theatre.