08 Works, Today, July 10th, is Saint Alexander of Bergamo’s day, his story in art #191

Henry Zaidan
1 min readJul 10, 2020

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Unknown artist
Saint Alexander of Bergamo

I have no further description of this artwork at this time

Saint Alexander of Bergamo (died c. 303) is the patron saint of Bergamo, as well as Capriate San Gervasio and Cervignano d’Adda. Alexander may simply have been a Roman soldier or resident of Bergamo who was tortured and killed for not renouncing his Christian faith. Details of his life are uncertain, but subsequent Christian stories consider him a centurion of the Theban Legion commanded by Saint Maurice…

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Henry Zaidan
Henry Zaidan

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