Of the church's three bells only one escaped the fascist requisitions of the 1940s: the big one, eighteen hundredweight, cast in 1708 by the Desiati of Agnone. Another, the French one, was recast in 1967 by the Marinelli using the bronze of a bell that came from France to replace the one taken away.
The Gothic portal of the entrance is thirteenth-century and probably comes from the Benedictine monastery of San Pietro, which stood on the border with Castelmauro. On Monte Rocchetta are the remains of cyclopean Samnite walls: some identify them with ancient Maronea, which the proconsul Marcellus took in 212 BC. The nel Sannio was added in 1869. There are 1,650 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 13 June
Montefalcone nel Sannio celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on 13 June, holding an authentic relic of the saint donated by the Basilica of Padua in 1993; co-patron is Saint Nicholas of Bari, while the blessed Giso, a Montefalcone-born abbot, is venerated locally.
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Outside Montefalcone nel Sannio, but an easy day trip away.
