The church and the novitiate of San Giuseppe are part of a sacred complex located on Mount Telegrafo, in the municipality of Monte Argentario.
The convent wanted by St. Paul of the Cross as a retreat for the novices was begun in 1753 and finished in 1761.
The church has three plaster altars and painted stucco, with a late baroque character of a certain elegance. On the high altar, a refined tabernacle in polychrome marble. In the choir of the counter-façade is placed the most valuable image of the complex: the Sorrowful Madonna, traditionally attributed to Sebastiano Conca.
Several nineteenth-century portraits of the Passionist Fathers are kept in the convent, especially interesting from a documentary point of view. On the first floor is the founder’s cell, connoted in the entrance to the plaque with the Cubiculum Pauli inscription in Cruce.
