Cripta Arqueológica de la Prisión de San Vicente
Visigothic funerary chapel long venerated as the cell where a martyred deacon died on broken pottery.
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This guide to the Cripta Arqueologica de la Prision de San Vicente in Valencia begins with the death of Vincent, a young deacon of Zaragoza executed here around the year 304, his body finally let fall onto a heap of broken pottery. It follows the centuries of pilgrims who knelt in this exact chamber believing they were touching the walls of his actual cell, under the governor Dacian who had ordered the rack and the grill used against him. You will hear how the low vaulted stonework around you, with its surviving barrel roof, still carries that conviction. Stand in the chamber and look at the stonework the faithful once mistook for a dungeon.
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