San Potito, Naples

San Potito is a church in Naples dedicated to Potitus, who was tortured to death in Epirus or Ascoli in 166.

It was built in the first half of the 17th century in the Mannerist style to plans by Pietro de Marino.

It was intended as the monastery church for a community of Benedictines which had initially been founded as Basilians.

During the French invasion of Italy the monastery's lands and goods were confiscated and the monks expelled in 1809 under Joachim Murat, with some of them moving into the church of San Gregorio Armeno.

The high altarpiece is surmounted by three paintings - Niccolò de Simone's 1654 Saint Potitus pierced by a burning nail making the emperor Antoninus share his pain, flanked by Giacinto Diano's 1784 Saint Potitus felling an idol and Saint Potitus curing the madness of Antoninus' daughter Agnes.