Rome, Italy, Dec 16, 2008 / 19:51 pm
A "lost chapel" honoring those who died in southern Italy during the Second World War has been rediscovered in an Italian building’s storeroom. It had been dedicated as "a perpetual monument to the ideals of chivalry and the brotherhood" which inspired the soldiers.
Former British soldiers who took part in the landings at Salerno in September 1943 had told Harry Shindler, a spokesman in Italy for the veterans’ group "Star Association," that they had built the chapel to honor those who died in the landings, the Times Online reports.
The soldiers said they named the chapel for St. Martin and St. George and painted frescoes in it.
Schindler told the Times the soldiers remembered that the chapel had been carved out of a former wine cellar but the landscape had changed so much they could not recall its exact location.