Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio
Dominican basilica with a marble martyr's tomb and fragments of the Three Kings' relics.
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Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio's guide begins in a forest twenty-five kilometers north of Milan, on the sixth of April 1252, when two Dominican friars walking home from Como were ambushed and one, Peter of Verona, an inquisitor with plenty of enemies, was killed. Rome canonized him within the year, one of the fastest such decisions in church history, and his body came to rest here under an elaborate marble tomb carved by Giovanni di Balduccio. The guide traces what happened to his remains over the centuries that followed, and a local legend Milan still tells about them. Look for the carved panels around the tomb as you listen.
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