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Rimini
Rimini (prov.)
Emilia-Romagna

Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini
(Chiesa San Gaudenzo)

San Gaudenzo di Rimini

Saint Gaudentius of Rimini

Ephese c. 280 - Rimini 360
First bishop of Rimini
(Wikipedia)

Elio Morri
c. 1950

Description

The original parish church was erected in 1856 and destroyed during World War II. The reconstruction, while modeled on the prior church, is a modern reinterpretation, completed in 1950, by the architect Luigi Campanini.

The tympanum has a stone relief depicting St. Gaudenz and two angels, one with a bishop's staff, the other with a church model. At the lower edge is a city profile of Rimini.

Rimini - San Gaudenzo di Rimini

Below the tympanum the text:

S. GAUDENTIO M. ET EP. ARIM. DICATUM
(dedicated to St. Gaudentius, Martyr and Bishop of Rimini)

Sculptor

Elio Morri (Rimini 1913 - Rimini 1992), Italian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, San Gaudenzo, Rimini.

Locatie (N 44°3'24" - E 12°33'50") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: iter012; Photograph: 11 May 2017
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