St Marco's church

The church, redesigned in its current form by Martino Fuiten in 1665 and stripped of its main furnishings during the Napoleonic Age, is accessible through a seventeenth-century portico covered with tombstones. In the apse a modern fresco by Antonio Fasal (1937) depicts, among other characters, Cardinal Gerolamo Seripando, bishop of Salerno, to whose freedom the expansion of the cloister is due. At the time of the Council there was on display a large Fogolino altar piece, “Sposalizio Mistico di Santa Caterina”, which today is visible at Buonconsiglio. During the Council leading theologians from the Order of the Hermit Friars of Saint Augustine used to live here and among them there was Agostino Salvago, archbishop of Genova. On the 13th March 1563 here took place the trial of the Genoese merchant Agostino Centurione, accused of heresy.