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Church of St. Stephen in the Rock

Since the Church of St Stephen had been renamed Santa Croce, the people of Atina built another one in honour of the saint, located within the first city wall of the fortress. I believe it was in the same place where, after the collapse of the original building, Erminia Mancini had a small church built for her devotion, dedicated [...].

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Church of St Charles

At the same time that Bishop Gaudentius built the Churches of S. Lorenzo and S. Biagio, the Church of S. Stefano was also founded by the same prelate, as mentioned above, attached to the gate, which was called S. Rocco, today known as Porta di la su. This church then took the name of S. [...].

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Atina according to Ferdinando Pistilli

Una è questa delle più antiche Città dell’Italia, che oggi esistono. Tale la chiama Virgilio (1) e tale vien detta da Marziale nelle sue descrizioni (2) Mari, quietoe cultor, et comes vitae,Quo cive prisca gloriatur Atina. Da queste testimonianze, e da altre simili disse il Biondo Atina urbs vetustissima (3). La sua fondazione si richiama […]

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Church of St Passicrate and Daria

After some time, in the place where the Villa Orrea once stood, today known as Broile, Solomon himself built a church in honour of Saints Passicrate and Daria. Passicrate, and Daria, and although the vestiges of said Church do not appear today, among the egregious deeds of this good Shepherd, one can also read.

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Church of St Valentine

In the Territory of the Rocca di Mal Cocchiaro, near the Molarino River, and precisely near the Molino di San Valentino, a Temple was built by the Atinati to this same Martyr, their fellow-citizen, and although today its form is not clearly discernible, one can still see in that place the foundations of a large factory, and large stones, artificially worked. For [...]

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Church of St Julian

Thus, according to the ancient tradition in Atina, as well as to the reasons of Doctor Marco Antonio Palombo, which will be given in the fifth book, it is firmly believed that Saint Julian, a Dalmatian, was martyred near the bridge over the River Melfe, and that in the same place this martyr was given the Church by the people of Atina, so close to the said bridge that it has remained there to this day [...].

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Church of St Peter

The first temple, therefore, in which the profanity of idolatry in this country began to be abolished, in the first church consecrated by the bishop, Marcus Galileus, to the Prince of the Apostles, St Peter, in the eighth year of his martyrdom, is found to have been of Jupiter, as the Chronicle of the City of Atina itself, reported in Chapter 7 of the first [...].

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Church of San Mauro

At Pie’ delle Piagge, near the Mollarino river, our fellow citizens, out of their devotion and to give greater glory to their patron saint St Mark, had a welcoming church built. Although this remained standing for many years, frequent flooding of the river seriously damaged it until it disappeared completely, so much so that today [...].

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Church of San Angiolo (Sant'Angelo)

Presiding over the Church of Atina, Bishop Palombo, from a priest called Teuto, a Church was erected in Peschio, in the hills of the river Melfi, which, completed and endowed by the Founder, was dedicated by Bishop Palombo to St. Angiolo, and today gives its title to one of the canons of our Collegiate Church. Thus we read in our [...].

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The rebuilding of the town of Atina after the War

The citizens of Atina who decided to remain worked tirelessly together to gradually rebuild their lives and rebuild and repair their beloved Atina. Over a period of many years the town has been reconstructed, however if you look very carefully many of the buildings still bear the scars of the bombing and shelling. On the […]