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After the renovations commissioned by the Caracciolos in the early 1600s, the church had a single nave and at the end it included a tribune with the main altar surmounted by a dome. On the left side, in succession, there was the sacristy and the chapel of SanM. of Monserrato, which led to the Oratory of the homonymous brotherhood, built in correspondence with the tribune, along the East-West axis. As can easily be seen, the same "system" can be found, both in the drawing made at the beginning of the 18th century by Fr. Don F.M. Bears, both in the present condition. In three centuries of life, however, the church underwent several transformations, among which the most evident concerns the façade: it lost those baroque motifs just outlined in the eighteenth-century design of the Orsi (in particular on the sides of the central niche two identical coats of arms, in which the weapons of the Caracciolo-Rossi di Avellino can be glimpsed) to assume a simple and linear form. Inside, during the first half of the 1700s, the church was enriched with various altars: those of San Nicola di Bari and San Giuseppe, made with a "legate" by Marino Caracciolo and above all that of San Benedetto , placed in front of the chapel of SM of Monserrato, for the construction of which it was necessary to partially demolish the right side wall of the church to obtain a room of about 30 square meters. Even today, if we observe the right profile of the church from the outside, we notice a protrusion in correspondence with the aforementioned altar. This chapel, improperly called San Guglielmo (founder of the Benedictines of Montevergine), was severely damaged by the flood of 1806, as was the whole complex, and was definitively restored only in 1866, as evidenced by an epigraph placed on the floor. Let's not forget that the church was "..situated below and almost surrounded by a small river ..."; in reality, the rivers that "surrounded" the church were two: the Fenestrelle and the Rio Cupo, the latter flowing into the former right near the church, so this area was particularly at risk of flooding. In fact, only 12 years after the restoration of the church another dramatic event partially nullified its effects: the flood of 1878. Eloquently, a plaque placed on the entrance wall of the brotherhood's oratory recalls the "level" reached by the waters. However, thanks above all to the care lavished by the brotherhood, the church managed to survive in dignity. Many still remember the old and sad custom of "saying goodbye to Monserrato". In fact, at this church it was customary to "dissolve" the funeral processions with the pitiful habit of offering condolences to the relatives of the deceased.