Saint Agnes: The Hidden Church in Northern Italy

Saint Agnes was a young Christian girl martyred

 for her faith in Rome in 304 A.D. She is often

depicted, as in this painting by the Italian
artist, Domenichino, with a lamb, which
is symbolic of her virginal innocence.

A short clip about Saint Agnes Church in the village 
 of Tres, Val di Nom, a small town built on three hills
in the Trentino Alto Adige region of northern Italy.

Tres is the home of my paternal ancestors.

Although my grandfather, Michael Brida, was born in
 Colorado in 1894, where his father was working as
part of a road crew building the tunnels and roads
in that state, the family returned to Tres, which was
then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire,
when he was a small boy.

He returned to America as a young man and
worked for most of his life as a terrazzo contractor.
In fact, most of the men from the village of Tres
worked in the field of stone masonry.

During the second World War, the two church towers in the
 town were used as landmarks for planes flying over the Alps.

A remarkably beautiful place!

Saint Agnes: The Hidden Church In Northern Italy

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