BAZZANO. - Two miles from L'Aquila in Abruzzo, on the Aterno river. It is the ancient Vicus Ofidius. Its parish church is dedicated to St. Giusta, whom the passio assigns to the age of Maximian (BHL 4586).

The martyr was buried in a place around which there developed a hypogeum hollowed out of the rock, with loculi closed by low walls and arcosolia likewise of masonry. There a Christian inscription of the year 396 was found (CIL, IX, 3601). Upon the primitive oratory, erected there in the 9th century, a church was superimposed, rebuilt in 1218, with three naves and a portal dated 1238; the central nave was shortened in 1461, after an earthquake; the right nave was later converted into the parish dwelling. Many architectural and epigraphic fragments document the subsequent transformations.

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BIBL.: M. Armellini, Gli antichi cimiteri cristiani di Roma e d'Italia, Rome 1893, pp. 692-93; A. Bevignani, Osservazioni sulle cenzombe di S. Vittorino e di B. e sopra una cappella per reliquie, in N. Bull. di archeol. crist., 9 (1903), pp. 187-93; I. Gavini, Storia dell'architettura in Abruzzo, I, Milan-Rome n.d., pp. 9, 299, 321, 330, 464-65; figs. 351-58; II, pp. 150, 228, 330, 339; figs. 379-87.

Enrico Josi

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