Thanks to a decree of Pope Innocent III dated 1250, they called Conventual the Franciscan Fathers who observed a less rigid Rule of Saint Francis and wore a brown sack and shoes instead of sandals.
[1] Next to the Church there are the Franciscan cloister and the Immacolata Brotherhood's Oratory, founded in 1596 and formed by "respectful people", "teachers and priests".
Inside the friary there are two oval paintings with Ecce Homo and Our Lady of Sorrows, probable work of the 18th century.
[10] The chapel is also home to four paintings realized by Rosalino la Mattina, representing the most important moments of the Virgin's Conception and a marble altar made in 1951 by Giovan Battista Di Girolamo from Castellammare del Golfo.
Inside the Confraternity's oratory there is a painting of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre realized in 1888 by Nicolò Pizzitola, a painter from Alcamo.