Roccasecca dei Volsci. Church of Saint Sebastian

Roccasecca dei Volsci. Church of Saint Sebastian

The church of Saint Sebastian is dedicated to the patron saint of Roccasecca dei Volsci against the plague.

Saint Sebastian was the patron of the country before the Massimo family brought San Massimo Martyr.

The church was used for years as a garage and the beautiful portal was stolen.

During recent renovations frescoes of the sixteenth century have resurfaced including San Sebastian tied to a tree-trunk, St. Nicholas of Bari, the bishop and the figure of a child who remembers the miracle of the three children plunged into a vat.

Other frescoes represent St. John the Baptist and St. Thomas Aquinas, who died in 1274 in the nearby Abbey of Fossanova.
 


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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