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The parish church at the centre of the village, was consecrated in 1833 and is dedicated to 'San Simmaco Papa', (Pope) who according to tradition was born right here in Simaxis. This tradition is in reality, only based on the assonance between the name of the Saint and that of the village, because the only historically attestable document that mentions Pope Simmaco, namely the "Liber Pontificalis', only records the date of the pontificate (498-514), but not his origins. However, this very Simmaco reaffirms his Sardinian origins in one of his epistles, but without giving any more precise indications. Thus, Simmaco was the second Sardinian Pope after Sant'Ilario. The church in his name was built in the exact place where according to local tradition, the paternal home of the Saint once stood. It is a single-naved building with three side chapels on either side, built in sandstone and red bricks. The faade is of neoclassical inspiration and terminates in a tympanum which has a central stained?glass window. It houses a wooden statue of the Saint from an unknown period. Not far from the parish church, the old grain mountain can be seen, dating to the first half of 1800, made up of a longitudinal main part which is sub-divided into bays by two Gothic arches. The walls have the first metre in stone, while the upper part is in 'ladiri', the typical green bricks of clay so common throughout the Campidano area; the arches are in red bricks, (therefore baked bricks), while the roof is covered with tiles and supported by trusses. The Church of San Teodoro rises alongside the ruins of the churches of San Nicol of Mira and 'dell'Angelo' in the hamlet of San Vero Congius , which until the beginning of the twentieth century was an independent commune, but was practically wiped out by a flood and rebuilt during the fascist period. The names of all these cults evoke the period of Byzantine rule in Sardinia: in fact they are all saints who are worshipped in the Christian Orthodox Church. San Vero takes its name from San Teodoro; from the Latin 'Sanctus Theodorus' , through the vernacular form 'Santu Eoru' arriving at 'Santu Eru', Italianised as 'San Vero'. The church, dating to between the VI and the IX century, is a typical Byzantine construction; a cross-shaped floor-plan, whose limbs are covered by a vaulted?ceiling without an apse and with a dome where the arms meet. The Feast in honour of San Simmaco is held both in the month of January ( on the last Sunday), on the Saint?s birthday, but also on 19th July, when the 'dies natalis' is celebrated, in other words, on the anniversary of his death. Both occasions are organised by the village committee of fifty year-olds and during the feast at the end of January, everyone gathers around a huge bonfire to eat boiled beans and lard offered by the committee. Src: http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/offerta/cultura/cittaepaesi/paesi/simaxis.html
The parish church at the centre of the village, was consecrated in 1833 and is dedicated to 'San Simmaco Papa', (Pope) who according to tradition was born right here in Simaxis. This tradition is in reality, only based on the assonance between the name of the Saint and that of the village, because the only historically attestable document that mentions Pope Simmaco, namely the "Liber Pontificalis', only records the date of the pontificate (498-514), but not his origins. However, this very Simmaco reaffirms his Sardinian origins in one of his epistles, but without giving any more precise indications. Thus, Simmaco was the second Sardinian Pope after Sant'Ilario. The church in his name was built in the exact place where according to local tradition, the paternal home of the Saint once stood. It is a single-naved building with three side chapels on either side, built in sandstone and red bricks. The faade is of neoclassical inspiration and terminates in a tympanum which has a central stained?glass window. It houses a wooden statue of the Saint from an unknown period. Not far from the parish church, the old grain mountain can be seen, dating to the first half of 1800, made up of a longitudinal main part which is sub-divided into bays by two Gothic arches. The walls have the first metre in stone, while the upper part is in 'ladiri', the typical green bricks of clay so common throughout the Campidano area; the arches are in red bricks, (therefore baked bricks), while the roof is covered with tiles and supported by trusses. The Church of San Teodoro rises alongside the ruins of the churches of San Nicol of Mira and 'dell'Angelo' in the hamlet of San Vero Congius , which until the beginning of the twentieth century was an independent commune, but was practically wiped out by a flood and rebuilt during the fascist period. The names of all these cults evoke the period of Byzantine rule in Sardinia: in fact they are all saints who are worshipped in the Christian Orthodox Church. San Vero takes its name from San Teodoro; from the Latin 'Sanctus Theodorus' , through the vernacular form 'Santu Eoru' arriving at 'Santu Eru', Italianised as 'San Vero'. The church, dating to between the VI and the IX century, is a typical Byzantine construction; a cross-shaped floor-plan, whose limbs are covered by a vaulted?ceiling without an apse and with a dome where the arms meet. The Feast in honour of San Simmaco is held both in the month of January ( on the last Sunday), on the Saint?s birthday, but also on 19th July, when the 'dies natalis' is celebrated, in other words, on the anniversary of his death. Both occasions are organised by the village committee of fifty year-olds and during the feast at the end of January, everyone gathers around a huge bonfire to eat boiled beans and lard offered by the committee. Src: http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/offerta/cultura/cittaepaesi/paesi/simaxis.html
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