Santi Leonardo e Erasmo, Roccagorga

Santi Leonardo e Erasmo is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located in Roccagorga, province of Latina, region of Lazio, central Italy.

Presumbably, the church is dedicated in part to St Erasmus, former bishop of Formia, a port in the province of Latina.

It overlooks the Piazza VI Gennaio A church dedicated to Santa Maria present at this site, when in 1500, a building of this general layout was built.

The present late-Baroque structure was built after church was damaged during an earthquake in 1753, and collapsed on 23 December, 1769; the architect Paolo Posi designed the layout completed in 1775.

In 1798, Napoleonic troops stripped the church of much of its silver and gold decoration; sparing the bust of San Erasmo.

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