Basilica of San Nazarius in Brolo
Ancient basilica holding a martyr's relics, fronted by a mercenary general's octagonal mausoleum.
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This guide to the Basilica of San Nazarius in Brolo in Milan opens with Bishop Ambrose digging in a garden outside the city walls near the end of the fourth century and unearthing a body his secretary swore still bled, fresh and red, centuries after death. It follows how Ambrose named the corpse a forgotten martyr, Nazarius, and carried it into the church he had built along the road to Rome. The guide also traces the Renaissance mercenary Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, who forced an eight-sided chapel in front of the original facade and chose his own one-line epitaph.
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