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Chiesa di Sant’Eufemia

TIME : 2016/2/18 21:17:32

Four women saints were crowded under the roof of the original AD 890 church here, but Sts Dorothy, Tecla and Erasma weren’t as big a draw as Byzantine Christian martyr Euphemia. She was thrown to hungry lions, but after biting off her hand, the lions refused to eat her holy virgin flesh. The simple Veneto-Byzantine structure you see today dates from the 14th century.