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Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Angrogna, a municipality of 870 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Angrogna is a side valley of the Pellice, and its history is Waldensian. In 1532, at Chanforan, the synod of the Waldensian churches of Italy, France, Calabria and Apulia chose to join the Protestant Reformation and print the Olivetan Bible, which appeared three years later. In 1555 the first Protestant temple on the peninsula was built here.
The Ciabàs temple is of the sixteenth century. Until 1794 Protestants could not be buried in Piedmontese cemeteries, and the remains of several foreign figures who died in Piedmont were taken in here. The white gable still carries the lit candlestick with the motto Lux lucet in tenebris and, below it, a verse from Isaiah in French.
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Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.