The meeting, titled “La venuta dei Carmelitani Scalzi e il culto di Santa Teresa a Piano di Sorrento”, was scheduled for Sunday 15 November 2026 at 18:30 in the Church of Saints Joseph and Teresa on Via Santa Teresa, according to Positano News and the Municipality of Piano di Sorrento.
The initiative was presented by the Discalced Carmelites of Piano di Sorrento and the cultural group led by Ciro Ferrigno, with the cultural patronage of the Municipality. Ferrigno and Father Luigi Gaetani were scheduled to discuss the local history and spirituality of the Carmelite presence, while the programme included music and singing by Alfonso M. Delli Franci.
The historical starting point is the link between Saint Teresa of Ávila’s canonization in 1622 and the opening of a church dedicated to her at Carotto in 1632, a ten-year interval identified in the event materials.
The municipal cultural history then records a separate sequence of dates for the Carmelite complex: a convent was requested in 1633, construction began in 1661, the church was built between 1663 and 1687, and it was inaugurated on 28 April 1691. How the 1632 church at Carotto relates institutionally or architecturally to that later construction remains unclear.
The same municipal history describes the church as a three-nave building with Baroque and Neoclassical elements, a marble pulpit, a polychrome-marble main altar and a wooden choir dating from 1936.
Separately from the event venue on Via Santa Teresa, the Archdiocese of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia currently lists the Discalced Carmelite convent dedicated to Santa Teresa at Via Santa Teresa 14 in Piano di Sorrento.
