Santi Bonifacio e Alessio all'Aventino


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Chapel of St. Alexis
The chapel contains a reliquary containing what is traditionally claimed to be the wooden staircase in his wealthy parents’ home under which he lived for 17 years, unrecognized by his parents, after returning from many years of living as a holy beggar in Syria. He also died under the staircase.