S. Maria e S. Brigida al Paradiso

Santa Maria e Santa Brigida al Paradiso is a Roman Catholic parish church located on via Benedetto Fortini in the quartiere of Gavinana in the zone of Paradiso, just south of the urban center of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is also known as Santi Maria e Brigida alla Badiuzza di Fabroro By the 12th-century, a group of reformed Benedictines known as Scalzi Pulsanesi had a small abbey here with attached church. The abbey was dependent on a monastery in Montici. Neither convent prospered, and in 1305, the monks briefly abandoned the monastery, then known as Badiuzza di Santa Maria di Fabroro, that was prone to much damage due to the wars that reigned and its location in the midst of a perverse nation By 1416, this small monastery and church were transferred to the female Benedictine convent of Santa Brigida al Paradiso, located just down the hill.

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