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86:, donated by don Cesare Michelangelo d'Avalos. His skeleton holds a silver palm leaf symbolizing his martyrdom. The attributes of a soldier, helmet and sword, are on the floor of the case beside him. Relics comprising more than one person, all putatively attributed to Cesario, are found throughout Europe.
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67:. There was apparently a burst of construction in the 13th and 14th century, including rebuilding a tall bell-tower, which also served as a defensive fortification, in what was an Adriatic town prone to
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