Santi Apostoli, Verona
Santi Apostoli, and the adjacent
History
A church at this site of the Chiesetta was consecrated in 751 on an earlier fifth-century structure, but reconstructed in the 12th century. Reconstruction of this and Santi Apostoli were pursued across the centuries including major ones in the 18th and 20th-centuries.
The interior was reduced from three to one nave in the 1500s. Through the sacristy, one can enter the partially subterranean brick chapel of Sante Teuteria e Tosca, located on the north side of the church. The cult of these saints, whose biographies are poorly documented, developed around 1160, when the relics of the saints were discovered and entombed in a marble ark.
To the right of the altar is the tomb (1368) of Francesco Bevilacqua. A marble monument for three brothers of the Bevilacqua was added in the 16th century. The urn has sculpted images of the three theologic virtues.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Commune of Verona tourism office.
- ^ Lombard Architecture, Volume 3 by Arthur Kingsley Porter, (1917), page 512.
- ^ Indicazione delle fabbriche, chiese e pitture di Verona o sia guida per li forestieri, Tipografia Bisesti Editrice, Verona, (1827); page 35.
