Chiesa di San Pietro Somaldi

This guide to Chiesa di San Pietro Somaldi in Lucca starts with three deep scratches on a stone pillar by the main door, and the local legend tying them to Gemma Galgani, a young woman who died here on Holy Saturday in nineteen oh three. It follows her repeated visits to receive communion and the story that the devil clawed the stone in fury at her devotion, alongside the church's own history, founded by a bishop named Sumualdo in seven hundred sixty-three and rebuilt with a portal carved by Guido Bigarelli in twelve forty-eight. Look for the grooves in the pale stone just left of the central door, at roughly the height of a dragged hand.