San Carlo is a

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-style, church located facing the Piazza Palazzo Vecchio in

San Gemini San Gemini is a ''comune'' (municipality) of c. 5,000 inhabitants in the province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km south of Perugia and about 10 km northwest of Terni. San Gemini borders the municipalities of Mo ...

Province of Terni The province of Terni () is the smaller of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising one-third of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Terni. The province came into being in 1927, when it was ca ...

, region of

Umbria Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The re ...

, Italy.

History and description

This small 15th-century church was built to shelter a local

aedicule In ancient Roman religion, an ''aedicula'' (: ''aediculae'') is a small shrine, and in classical architecture refers to a niche covered by a pediment or entablature supported by a pair of columns and typically framing a statue,"aedicula, n." ''O ...

dedicated to the Virgin, and the structure was once dedicated to ''Santa Maria de Incertis'', but later was rededicated to the bishop of Milan, later Saint Cardinal

Carlo Borromeo Charles Borromeo (; ; 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560. Borromeo founded the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and was ...

, who once officiated mass here. The exterior facing the piazza was represented by two round stone arches and two flanking windows, of which only one arch has not been closed off. The interior space is a single nave with wood roof. The interior houses a main altar, roofed by an elaborate ciborium, with the posterior wall possessing a large, well-restored 15th-century fresco depicting an ''Enthroned Madonna, Saints, and Angels'', painted by a follower of Boccati. Nearby, among other quattrocento frescoes, is a 15th-century fresco depicting the ''Enthroned Madonna with Sts Sebastian and Stephen''. The church also has two canvases depicting ''Miracles of

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'' (''Miracle of the Mule'' and ''Sermon to the Fishes'') attributed to

Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (; 1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. Although a prolific painter, Baglione is best remembered for his encyclopedic collection of biographies of the o ...

.San Gemini tourism site by Stefano Ferri (2014)
citing ''San Gemini e le terre arnolfe'', by Silvestro Nessi, San Gemini 1996 3rd edition, Edito da Ass. Pro San Gemini.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlo San Gemini Churches in the province of Terni Roman Catholic churches in Umbria 14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy