The Order of the Servants of Mary reached Siena in 1250, a few years after its foundation on Mount Senario (1233) near Florence. The bishop of Siena, Bonfiglio degli Ugurgeri, was particularly well disposed towards the new mendicant orders, and for this reason invited Alessio Falconieri, one of the Seven Holy Founders, to Siena to have him build a convent here. Initially, the Servites settled near . . .