San Paride ad Fontem, Teano

San Paride ad Fontem in Teano is an ancient Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located in the Ternità neighborhood, about 1.5 kilometers southeast of the center of the town of Teano, province of Caserta, region of Campania, southern Italy.

It was named ad Fontem because this low ground once had a spring at which St Paride of Teano (Paris of Teano), the town's 4th century bishop, preached. Paride bishop, born in Athens, was reputed to have miraculously tamed or killed a dragon living in a cave near town.[1]

  1. ^ Le chiese d'Italia: dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Volume 20, by Giuseppe Cappelletti, (1866) page 197.