San Pietro in Ciel d Oro

San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro is a Roman Catholic basilica of the Augustinians in Pavia, Italy, in the Lombardy region. Its name refers back to the mosaics of gold leaf in the back of glass tesserae that decorates the ceiling of the apse. The simple outside is of brick, with sandstone quoins and window framing. The paving of the church ground is now decrease than the cutting-edge street degree of Piazza San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, which lies before its facade. A church of Saint Peter is recorded in Pavia in 604; it changed into renovated with the aid of Liutprand, King of the Lombards between 720 and 725.

The present Romanesque church turned into consecrated via Pope Innocent II in 1132. The church is the resting vicinity for the remains of Augustine of Hippo, who died in 430 in his home diocese of Hippo Regius, and became buried in the cathedral there, at some point of the time of the Vandals. According to Bede's True Martyrology, the frame turned into removed to Cagliari, Sardinia through the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal Huneric had expelled from north Africa. Bede tells that the stays have been ultimately redeemed out of the hands of the Saracens there by way of Peter, bishop of Pavia and uncle of the Lombard king Liutprand and deposited in the church of Saint Peter approximately the year 720.