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 [...].
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 [...].
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 [...].
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 [...].
