 The church was built in 1619 thanks to the subsidies of the Duke of Bavaria and of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, the brother of Pope Urban VIII; the cloister dates back to 1615 and was founded by the carmelite Domenico di Gesù e Maria ""in order to take the indecent women away from sin"" (Armellini).The interior of the church shows a single nave and has been altered in the 19th century with a quite neoclassical style.The high altar housed a painting portraying "Jesus bearing the cross", now replaced with a "Crucifix" by Francesco Troppa; the same author also painted the "Annunciation" on the right altar.