Marc'Antonio Palombo, describing events related to Bishop Boniface, provides sufficient evidence to affirm the existence of another church dedicated to the Virgin, located just above the place now called “Veduta”. He identifies its presence through the discovery of fragments of masonry with pictorial decorations, as well as a sepulchre and two bells, found in his time. [...]
On the top of a low, pyramid-shaped mountain, leaning against Monte Ordicoso (now called Monte Prato), located to the south and clearly visible from our town, stood the church mentioned in the diplomas of Innocent III and Honorius III as Santa Croce del Monte. Although today it is completely in ruins, it still preserves the [...]
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 [...].
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. [...].
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.
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 [...]
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 [...].
