The church of Santa Maria ad Cryptas is located, like many other Abruzzo churches, in an isolated place, about a kilometer from the village of Fossa and a few kilometers from the abbey of Santo Spirito in Ocre, which it depended for a certain period. It is one of the most beautiful examples of thirteenth-century architecture. However, its origins are older. Some scholars, including Bindi (Bindi, 1889) and Gavini (Gavini, 1927), have...