Basilica of San Frediano

The Basilica of San Frediano is a Romanesque church in Lucca, Italy, situated on the Piazza San Frediano. Fridianus Frediano was an Irish bishop of Lucca in the first half of the 6th century. He had a congregation based on this spot, devoted to St. Vincent, a saint from Zaragoza, Spain. At the point when Fridianus was covered in this congregation, the congregation was renamed Ss. Frediano and Vincenzo. Before long a while later, a network of Augustinian groups was developing around this congregation.

In the Longobard time, the congregation and the group house were extended. In 1104, this request was perceived by Pope Paschal II. The earlier of St. Frediano was later agreed a rank equivalent in nobility to that of a cleric. The congregation procured its present appearance of a run of the mill Roman basilica amid the period 1112-1147. In the thirteenth fourteenth hundreds of years the hitting facade was beautified with a colossal brilliant thirteenth century mosaic speaking to The Ascension of Christ the Savior with the messengers beneath. Berlinghiero Berlinghieri planned it in a Byzantine/medieval style. A few houses of prayer of the respectability were included the fourteenth sixteenth hundreds of years. These are sumptuously brightened with works of art.