San Teodoro is a Romanesque-style Roman Catholic church in the town center of Pavia, Italy. History A church at the site is documented since the year 752. The parish is cited in documents from the mid-13th-century. Initially the church was dedicated to Saint Agnes, but by the year 1000, it was dedicated to San Teodoro, bishop of Pavia who died in 778. The body of the saint, who is the protector of fisherman and those working in the River Ticino, is housed in the main altar. Description San Teodoro was built in late Romanesque style in Lombard brick between 12th and 13th century. It has a basilica layout with three apses, of which the central one is deeper, divided into three naves of three bays each, with the transept just mentioned. The central nave is twice as wide as the lateral ones. The roof is sometimes cross vaults supported by cruciform pillars of the Romanesque type that are not perfectly aligned. The spans corresponding to the transept have a barrel vault. Above the transept is the dome, divided into a lower part, consisting of a gallery of arches on columns, and an upper one of smaller dimensions. The whole is dominated by a roof lantern. On the southern side are the sacristy and the bell tower from the mid-16th century. On the façade there are numerous Arab or Byzantine ceramic plates also present in the other Romanesque churches in Pavia, such as the Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro. The presbytery is raised on the crypt dating back to the thirteenth century. In the southern transept there are frescoes of the Stories of Sant'Agnese, a work created around 1519 by an unknown Lombard artist (defined by critics as the Master of the Stories of Sant'Agnese) who is characterized by a style that is not very Lombard and greatly influenced by both Ferrara school, both from the culture and classicism of central Italy. On the left wall of the transept there is the fresco depicting the cycle of the stories of San Teodoro, made by an anonymous Lombard artist in 1514 as part of the renewal of the decoration of the church commissioned by Luchino Corti, as attested by the inscription placed in the upper frame. The cycle is made up of 12 panels, arranged in three bands with scenes described in great detail. Each episode is accompanied by a