Borgo San Dalmazzo ( Occitan : Lo Borg Sant Dalmatz ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont , located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Turin and about 8 kilometres (5 mi) southwest of Cuneo .
4-473: Borgo San Dalmazzo takes its name from Saint Dalmatius of Pavia . Sights include the parish church of San Dalmazzo (11th century). Borgo San Dalmazzo borders the following municipalities: Boves , Cuneo , Gaiola , Moiola , Roccasparvera , Roccavione , Valdieri , and Vignolo . The Nazi and Italian Social Republic regimes established and operated the Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp during
8-483: Is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church . It is possible that Dalmatius was simply a local preacher of northern Italy, but the century in which he lived or the manner in which he died is unknown. He was venerated at what was called Pedona (present-day Borgo San Dalmazzo ). His biography was composed in the 7th or 8th centuries, its author perhaps a Lombard monk of the monastery of Pedona who
12-650: The Second World War . At Borgo, approximately 375 Jewish Italians (from Cuneo , Saluzzo , Mondovì and other nearby communes) and 349 Jewish refugees from other countries were imprisoned and eventually deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps. Borgo San Dalmazzo is twinned with: This article on a location in the Province of Cuneo is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Saint Dalmatius of Pavia Dalmatius of Pavia ( Italian : San Dalmazzo, Dalmazio ) (died 254 or 304 AD)
16-503: Was drawing from oral tradition. His biography states that Dalmatius was born at Forum Germarzorum (present-day San Damiano Macra ) and became a churchman and evangelizer in Pedona. In the 10th century, when the area of Pedona was devastated during Muslim raids, Dalmatius’ relics were carried to Quargnento , where an inscription on his tomb read: [H]ic requiescit corpus sancti Dalmatii repositum ab Audace episcopo Astensi . In France,
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