In this room, the Confraternity Council met until the second half of the 1970s. The Council of the Confraternity of Saint Sebastian had established in the session on 31 April 1730, the “construction of a new sacristy […] but also the build a room to serve as a Council Room and where the writings can be safely archived.” The work continues starting the following year, which included a substantial refurbishing of the choir area, and will last into the following decade. The Council Room was built above the sacristy and could be accessed by a stone staircase that was completed in 1731. As foreseen, the room was used both for meetings of the Council of the Confraternity as well as an archive, of which the latter function was maintained until a few years ago. The general state of disrepair of the building had caused an evident neglect of the room, caused mainly by the seepage of rainwater starting in the 1970s, which had heavily damaged the ceiling and the furniture. The restoration work carried out beginning in 2001 allowed the recovery of the original aspect that the room had in the 1800s. The room is comprised of a simple terracotta floor and the striped wallpaper with small white and blue flowers recalls the shades of the ceiling, decorated by a false cornice and grey medallions with arrows and quiver as iconographic symbols of Saint Sebastian. The furnishings were conceived based on the typical middle-class taste of the time and add to creating an intimate and almost domestic atmosphere, with the large Victorian-style leather armchairs and the massive walnut wardrobe placed along the entrance wall in which the archive documents were placed. On the back wall next to the large majolica stove, another reference to Saint Sebastian’s arrows is in the small door on the fireplace. Among the other furnishings are the glass bells with flowers, another characteristic element of the nineteenth-century decorative style; the room conserves the original furniture and the crossed arrows are still visible on the fireplace and in the painted decoration, an obvious reference to the martyr Saint Sebastian and the symbol of the same confraternity. This room also houses the portraits of the confraternity benefactors, the same room that hosted the meetings of the Scotto-Chiabrant Charity for centuries, which foresaw, among other things, clothing twelve poor people on occasion of the city procession of Saint Michael and constituting “two due annual endowments of 120 liras each to be paid to two poor spinsters”. On 23 December 1901, the last important meeting of the three great city confraternities took place: Saint Sebastian, Holy Cross and the Church of Mercy had just come out of a century of serious major challenges and suppressions. The Church of Mercy died out in 1925, whereas the Confraternities of Saint Sebastian and Holy Cross still exist today.