Poggio di Garfagnana / Poggio San Terenzo / Poggio Camporgiano

INFORMATION

FontID: 08087POG

Church/Chapel: Chiesa di S. Biagio

Church Patron Saints: St. Blaise [aka Biagio, Blas, Blásios, Blasius]

Church Location: Via S. Biagio, 12, 55031 Poggio LU, Italy

Country Name: Italy

Location: Lucca, Toscana

Directions to Site: Located in the Garfagnana mountain district, 2 km from Poggio

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 16th century, Baroque

Church Notes: some 10thC manuscript mentions "la ecclesia Sancti Terentii et Sancti Johannis Baptiste [...] plebem battisimalis sito Rogiana", but after 1000 AD that church may have lost the privilege of baptism in favour of the pieve di San Pietro in Careggine; that medieval church may be the site of the present San Biagio's, which is an 18thC re-building

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the now reconstructed Romanesque church of the 10th century ["all'interno è notevole il Fonte Battesimale in pietra serena"] [source: http://users.libero.it/fondricci/att.htm]; the font mentioned appears to be 16th-century and made of marble.

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