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Sant'Ansano, Spoleto

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below the church was likely previously a ground-level, ancient Roman temple, upon which a church was built above. St Isaac of Monteluco was putatively a fifth century Syrian hermit, who established a community of hermit-monks in nearby
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monk who supposedly came to a mountain around Spoleto in the 6th century. The present church was built in the late 1700s by the Milanese architect
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Crypt of Sant'Isacco with replica of Sarcophagus and columns derived from prior Roman temple
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A church at the site had been built around the tomb of St Isaac, a Syrian
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18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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