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Sant'Alò, Terni

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The church of Sant'Alò is an early-medieval Roman Catholic church in Terni, Umbria, in Italy. It is dedicated to Saint Eligio (Aloysius), patron of the jewelers.

A church at the site we originally built in the 12th-century, putatively at the site of a Roman temple.

and granted by the Bishop to the cloistered Augustinian monks, who built an adjacent monastery. The interior is heavily frescoed, including fragments of a 12th-century Crucifixion The walls and facade incorporate spolia, including marble lion depictions, from Roman ruins.

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Sant'Alò, Terni Wikipedia