The chapel was dedicated to the cult of saint Erasmus of Formia, and likely contained gruesome images of his alleged death by disembowelment – and perhaps even one of his teeth as a relic, the Abbey’s historians said.

​The chapel was dedicated to the cult of saint Erasmus of Formia, and likely contained gruesome images of his alleged death by disembowelment – and perhaps even one of his teeth as a relic, the Abbey’s historians said.