A glimpse of the Middle Ages delivered to the reflection of contemporaries.
The Confraternity of the Flagellants or Disciplinati of San Ginesio obtained from the Vatican Chapter to be able to erect a church dedicated to the Apostle Thomas, on a land called Valle Vetica, or along the ancient Via di Brugiano that ran along the southern walls. The construction of the sacred building, propitiated by the donation of Tommaso Piantarosa which took place in 1339, it was finished in 1365.
The Confraternity led the church until the Napoleonic suppression. In 1823 the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was re-established there, commonly known as the Sacconi. This Confraternity is still alive and operating and has provided for the restoration of the church and the architectural complex, which also includes a beautiful garden overlooked by the "discipline" room, a small museum of the fraternity and a suggestive loggia, legacy of a home of the hospital dedicated to St. Barnabas.
N.B.: Structure partially accessible due to the earthquake of 2016.
