The Basilica di San Calimero is a church in

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, northern

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. Its name refers to

Saint Calimerius :''There is also a beatus named Calimerius of Montechiaro (ca. 1430-1521).'' Calimerius ( it, Calimero, Byzantine Greek: ''Καλημέριος'') (died 280 AD) was an early bishop of Milan. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic and Easte ...

(died 190 AD), an early bishop of the city. It dates from the 5th century but was almost completely rebuilt in 1882 by the architect Angelo Colla in an attempt to restore it to the "original" medieval structure. What remains of the ancient church include: the 16th century

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, with a noble frescoed vault by the Fiammenghini; a small fresco with the ''Madonna and Two Female Saints'' (15th century, attributed to

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) in the apse; a ''Crucifixion'' by

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, and a noteworthy ''Nativity'' by

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. Other medieval frescoes are in the annexed sacristy. The crypt also houses Calimerius' relics and a pit located in the same place in which the former's bones were found in the water.

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