These are the most important principles on which the abbey is based: labour ethics and religious observancy.

The abbey people were famous for wool processing. They executed all production stage: from the choice of raw material, to  beating, carding, combing, spinning, weaving, up to  the sale of those tissues. The products were sold under the brand " humiliated clothes " in northern Italy, Tuscany and beyond.  Florence hosted at that time the most important fabrics market , and “the Humbles” held a very prestigious importance.

The Humbles played an important role in the agricultural sector as well, and in the formation of the today’s organized landscape in Lombardy. They introduced the development of particular crops, such as "water meadows". By supplying a continuous amount of water to  slightly inclined soil there was ongoing growth of  grass, which was cut every 30-40 days. The last cut was left on the ground where it started rotting. Hence the name of the technique  to nourish the ground and make it fertile. These innovations have been used by civil society as well, and they became one of the factors of economic and cultural growth in Lombardy.
“Humble monks” were very appreciated and requested by civil authorities as accountants to public finance even outside Lombardy, due to their ability and integrity. This management art is confirmed by their presence at highest levels in the fields of finance. They were  managing the cash flow of the city of Siena in XVI century.  Such figures were chosen for their professional ability, integrity and absolute no interest to public and political life. These men were portrayed in Siena’s financial books.
The church is the only remainder of a more ancient complex.
In 1940 the abbey passed to a community of nuns. The nuns are producing  jams and since 1945, they play an important role for religious editings.
The façade is gabled. The peculiarity of the abbey are the mullioned windows open on the sky, the raw  bricks and decorations in white stone. The portal is in white marble. To the sides, two Gothic niches that contain statues of Saints Peter and Paul. The door of the church is in dark wood decorated with large wooden ribs and big spikes, and dates back to the construction of the facade.  The big door contains a smaller entrance that was used by prople to enter the holy place. The bell tower is typical of cistercian art.

Indoor the Church is almost bare in objects, but it carries painted decorations almost everywhere.  The Church has rectangular shape and carries 3 aisles of five bays, each framed in transverse pointed arches.  the first span  is  in Romanesque style; the other brick columns supporting high vaults are gothic for they have been realized during the XI century. The keystone placed in the center of  high vaults is surrounded by cloves enclosed in a circle. It’s painted  with  colors of the rainbow, a symbol of God's covenant with man. The church has many famous paintings that get back to Giotto’s mastery techniques. The front wall of the lantern carries the famous “Madonna in Maestà e Santi” painting dated 1349. Facing the Masterpiece there is the famous “il Giudizio Universale” (the Last Judgement) painted by Giusto de 'Menabuoi, dated back to the years preceding 1370; at its center  the figure of Christ; to its right stand the "blessed" with the face turned towards Him, and to the left stand the "damned" dominated by the figure of Satan devouring its  querry. On the upper half of the wall, there are two angels rolling story time and giving a glimpse behind  heavenly Jerusalem.