The church of Gesù Nuovo, or of the Trinità Maggiore, is a basilica church of Naples, located in Piazza del Gesù Nuovo facing the Obelisk of the Immaculate and the Basilica of Santa Chiara.
It is one of the most important and vast churches in the city, among the highest concentrations of Baroque painting and sculpture to which some of the most influential artists of the Neapolitan school have worked.
Inside is the body of Saint Giuseppe Moscati, canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1987.
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