San Sabino, Spoleto

San Sabino is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic rural parish church located on vicolo San Sabino #22, east of SS685 and north of the historic center of Spoleto, region of Umbria, Italy.

The structure appears to employ spolia from prior Ancient Roman buildings, and according to 19th-century excavations, it may have been a site for an early Christian cemetery.

Documentary evidence from a Lombard chronicle from 787 A.D. mentions a site housing the relics of the bishop of Spoleto, Sabinus, martyred by Emperor Maximilian.

One chronicler mentions that the Lombard duke Ariulf of Spoleto (died 602) prayed before the relics of the Saint prior to a battle.

Over the centuries, the church was modified, most dramatically after the earthquake in 1767, when the facade, roof, and apse required rebuilding.