{"id":18589,"date":"2020-12-11T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.templars-route.eu\/?page_id=18589"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:11:37","slug":"san-bevignate-church-in-perugia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.templars-route.eu\/en\/san-bevignate-church-in-perugia\/","title":{"rendered":"San Bevignate Church in Perugia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The creation of the building<\/h3>\n

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The Church of San Bevignate was built on the site of an ancient \u201cfullonica\u201d (laundry) of Roman Age, whose ruins, under the flooring, are also visitable. In the surrounding area, since 1243, the Templars owned a little church dedicated to San Gerolamo. The Abbey of San Giustino de Arno, San Gerolamo and the complex of San Bevignate constituted actually a single \u201cprecettoria\u201d (preceptory).<\/p>\n

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The Church was founded in 1256 on a proposal of the influential Templar friar Bonvicino, born in Assisi and cubicolarius (close collaborator) of four Popes. It was built in accordance with the Bishop and the Municipality of Perugia, and was dedicated to San Bevignate.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nPNLfbpfbdc”][vc_column_text]Complexe templiers de San Bevignate par la Municipalit\u00e9 de P\u00e9rouse[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]San Bevignate was an hermit particularly worshipped by the people of\u00a0 Perugia, who had \u00a0lived some decades before and that the Templars, the Bishop and the Municipality itself, tried, on various occasion, to have canonized. This whish explains as well the imposing dimensions of the edifice, thought with the civic cult of San Bevignate in view, whose corpse lays under the altar. Cult that, with the ensuing almsgiving, would have benefitted also the Order and its projects beyond the sea.<\/p>\n

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The austere architecture, in sandstone, of a single cross vaulted nave, recalls gothic forms of Cistercian inspiration and reminds edifices built in the same years in the Perugia area, but it is at the same time consistent (a part from the dimensions, usually more modest) with the architectures of the Temple Order.<\/p>\n

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The residential part was at the beginning limited to a tower structure close to the church (later bell tower), later enlarged in a convent wing.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Exceptional decorative elements<\/h3>\n

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The Fresco decoration is characterized by a first phase (about 1265-70) in which local painters, in a popular and communicative style, made: a curtain with false ashlars and symbolic elements, common to various Templar sites (crosses, nine stars alluding to the nine founders of the Order, floral pattern); on the tribune, Christological scenes, the Last Judgment<\/em>, the Last Supper<\/em> and some Saints and civic cults, among Bevignate and friar Raniero Fasani, Hermit from Perugia, probably connected to the same Bevignate, and the starter of the penitential movement of the \u201cFlagellanti\u201d (Flagellants) in 1260; in the inner part of the fa\u00e7ade, in three superimposed bands, stories of the Templar enterprises, either on a battlefield or during boat crossings toward the Holy Land[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”19604″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Eglise San Bevignate,\u00a0Comune di Perugia<\/p>\n

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Fresques de l’abside carr\u00e9e, Comune di Perugia<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]A second decorative phase, in which the figures of the 12 Apostles, with roman byzantine characteristics, were painted along the walls by different painters, can be traced back to 1280 or a little later. Probably the series of the Apostles was painted when in the \u201cprecettoria\u201d was resident the French Guillaume Charnier, documented as present in Perugia in 1283, a very important member of the Order and already \u201costiario\u201d of Pope Niccol\u00f2 III (1277 \u2013 1280). In this period, probably, part of the an altar array was a refined triptych on board with a Madonna with Child<\/em> and stories of the Life of Christ (also known as Perugia or Marzolini Triptych, today visible at the Galleria Nazionale of Umbria).<\/p>\n

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Edifice and decorative apparatus together constitute one of the most complete and best preserved witnesses of the History of the Knights of the Temple. (by Mirko Santanicchia)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

par Mirko Santanicchia<\/em><\/p>\n

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General Informations<\/h2>\n

Entrance with fee; wheelchair accessible
\nbookshop, toilets, parking lot
\nwhen open, free of charge, available: audio guides (in Italian and English), information materials, guide in Braille; the operators present can answer questions and give brief deepening free of charge on the history of the museum.<\/p>\n

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Opening Hours<\/h3>\n

January, February, March, November and December
\nSaturdays and Sundays 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
\nFrom April to October Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 am – 1:00 pm \/ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
\nClosed : 25th December and 1st January<\/p>\n

Entrance:<\/p>\n