Santi Bonifacio e Alessio Church

 

Inside this church is an eighteenth century chapel incorporating part of a wooden staircase under which the early Christian saint, Alexis, lived for 17 years. He fled to the Holy Land to' escape an ananged multiage, and ret lulled years later disguised as a beggar.

 Unrecognized, he asked his father for hospitality and lived under the staircase, only revealing his identity on his death bed.

 

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