The Main Confraternity of San Catello, today incorporated in the Main Confraternity of the Death, in which it transformed fallowing its aggregation to the Confraternity of Death and Prayer of Rome in 1586; is , after the one of the " Beaters" of S. Antonino, the oldest Sorrentinian Confraternity. The date of its foundation in fact, goes back to the year 1380.

Initially the Confraternity of S. Catello had seat in what today has become the refectory of the Enclosed Nun of the Covent of S: Mary delle Grazie (S. Mary of the Graces).
In 1568 on suggestion of the Archbishop, Monsignor Giulio Pavesi, the Confraternity moved to the Church of S. Mark the Evangelist, located in Bagnagatte Street, today via Pietà (pity street).

The brothers carried out here their work of cult, among those there was also the pitiful job of accompanying those condemned to scaffold, of caring for their burial, of giving Christian burial to the shipwreck victims, died in the sea, or to those who died outside the town's walls.

The Main Confraternity of the Death had a unique privilege, which unavoidably caused polemics and envy, it was thus, the one of deciding as much as they liked in which church to bury the dead, issuing also the so called "faith" of death. In the three years time from 1863 to 1865, the historic centre of Sorrento went through major changes.

In fact it is in this time that the Via Nuova (New Street), today Corso Italia, was built, parallel rectilinear to the street that was then the main street: via S. Cesareo.
The aim was to link more comfortably Sorrento to Massa Lubrense.

But as for every story involving an improvement, the opening of the new road meant the complete change of Sorrento's aspect.

Besides the remaining part of a castle, located in the central and homonym square, also other buildings and churches were destroyed, and among those also the church of S. Catello, that according to the descriptions of several documents of the time, had to be one of the most beautiful of Sorrento.

The Confraternity moved, taking furnishings and equipments, to the church of Servant of Mary, which gave hospitality to the homonym congregation. 

The story of these two Confraternities will intertwines several times throughout the years.
The congregation between the two sodalities had been already created in 1717 when the Main Confraternity of the Death is received to its church the young "sons or servants of Mary". This hospitality, after a century and a half, will be exchanged by the brothers of the Servants of Mary.
A tight bond, in fact it was decided that anyone who will have become Brother of the "Congregation of the Servants of Mary" would have automatically been accepted as a brother of the Main Confraternity of the Death.

The S. Monica's Main Confraternity is one of the oldest lay congregation existing in Sorrento.
Unfortunately there is a lack of documents that could certify the exact institution date of the pious sodality.
On this matter there are two more credited hypothesis, as said by Monsignor Ruggiero in a document written fallowing one pf his pastoral visit: the foundation year could be the 1227, year when the Pope Gregorio IX approved and favoured the institution of congregation under the title of the Virgin of the Belt; or the 1439, when Eugenio IV authorized the Agostinian order to erect such congregations.

The Main Confraternity of S. Monica, congregation of clear Agostinian inspiration, could have been founded therefore more probably in 1439.
This is the most accredited hypothesis by local historians and this would be confirmed by the fact that the church of the Annunziata was given together with the annex convent, to the care of the Agostinian monks, coming from the Monastery of S. Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples, only in XIV century.

With a decree of Papa Leone XIII, on 8th June 1886, the Confraternity was aroused to the grade of Main Confraternity with the right to aggregate to itself other solidities.
To say the truth that of S. Monica was already a Main Confraternity from 1582 fallowing its aggregation to the congregation of  S.Giacomo, S.Agostino and S. Monica already present in Bologna.

The Church and the Convent of the Annunziata were properties of the Agostinian friars, while the congregation had the chance of celebrating inside its own building. In 1809 Giocchino Murat issued the so called "Destroyed Laws" that suppressed all the existing monastic orders in the Reign of Naples. Thus, the Church and the Convent became the Commune's property.

The convent became first Gendarmes' barracks and later an hospital. Meanwhile in 1864 the Church was given as property of the Confraternity of S. Monica up to the present time.

In 2001 the Church of the Annunziata was restored and embellished to their old splendour. The activities of the congregation were numerous, especially during the past centuries, it used to carry out an important charitable activity.

Under such context we count activity such as the so called "maritaggi" (weddings), consisting in small capitals whose incomes were used to help the young and needy Sorrentinian women who wanted to marry.

And moreover the Confraternity was involved in the pitiful activity of giving a Christian burial to the poor of Sorrento.