San Bevignate

[2] San Bevignate follows typical Templar architecture, being a large rectangular structure, wide open spaces internally, and a square apsidal chapel attached to the east side.

The square apse, contain typical Templar architectural motifs such as the cosmological three crosses encompassed by nine stars,[3] is introduced by a large triumphal arch.

Frescoes on either side of the bifore window include the Madonna and Child enthroned with angels, three Apostles (including Barnabas, who was counted as 13th apostle by the Templars) and the symbols of the evangelists, a scene of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist, and scenes of the life of St. Bevignate.

Above the battle scene is a large lion climbing a palm tree and holding out a paw to a group of three monks.

Additional frescoes on the left wall depict St Barbara, and a male and a female mendicant saint.

His cult is closely related to the penitential processions, which he is claimed to have introduced to Perugia in the Lezenda by Raniero Fasani.

[5] During the latter part of the 14th century the nunnery, which had encountered scandals and a drop in members, was dissolved by Pope Julius II and given back to the Hospitallers.