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Take the Via Tribunali to the Franciscan church of San Lorenzo Maggiore, with its Baroque façade incorporating the 14th-century marble porch, which was added after the earthquake of 1731.
Behind him is Padua’s great site of pilgrimage, the 13th- and 14th-century Basilica of Sant’Antonio, the city’s protector simply known as II Santo, built in honor of the Portuguese-born Franciscan monk who died in Padua in 1231.
A statue of Junípero Serra, the 18th-century founder of the first Franciscan missions in California, is erected in front of the Plateresque carved portal.
At the back of the cloister of Santa Croce’s Franciscan monastery adjoining the church, Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a little gem of Renaissance elegance designed in 1443.
The origins of Los Penitentes have been debated for years, but it is likely they were heavily influenced by the Franciscan Third Order, who were the friars in New Mexico until Mexico separated from Spain in 1821.