Founded by a noblewoman named Anna.
In the 17th century there were 25 nuns, plus a group of unmarried women they educated.
1445: S. Maria della Croce, S. Giuliana, and S. Maria di Val Verde
According to Iacobilli, all the incarcerate (female hermits) in and near Foligno were brought together into the monastery of S. Maria del Popolo in 1450. However, Mario Sensi points out that there were still "incarcerate" living in the "carceri" (literally "prisons," small stone huts, hermitages, clusters of anchorholds) known as S. Salvatore and S. Agostino (Incarcerate e Penitenti a Foligno nella prima metà del trecento p. 239
It is unclear from Sensi's footnotes whether Iacobilli made this claim in his collection of Umbrian saints' lives: Vite III; or in a manuscript codex of notes and transcriptions: Foligno, Biblioteca Iacobilli cod. A. VIII.4.
