Chiesa di Sant’Egidio Abate

You do not know the date of foundation. The old title, according to sources episcopal starting from the sixteenth century, was “S. Maria to Thurible “derived from a large censer pendant played” under the altar under the image of the Madonna. ” The side frescoes showing various saints including St. Anthony and St. Egidio Abate, protector of the lame, the nurses, the lepers and the fearful, the local farmers began to venerate elevating him to the honors of titling: “Sante Marie to Turribulum et Sancti Egidii “in the seventeenth century, and” S. Saint Giles “in the next. In this context, in 1772, the rector Emidio Pacifiers Ascoli commissioned a new canvas for the altar where he wanted depicted, in the classic shapes from the first floor, the humble Abbot Egidio in worship under the ancient patron of the church, doing put also emphasize his portrait in civilian clothes, the emblem of the dynasty and the patron of his city: S. Emidio.