Oratorio di Sant'Eufrosino, Panzano in Chianti historical timeline

It starts with a saint and a spring, not a document. Sant'Eufrosino, a Cappadocian, was among the evangelisers of the Chianti; tradition holds that he died near Panzano and that an oratory was built where he was buried, drawing pilgrims to the cult of a spring with thaumaturgic powers.

The first notice is dated to the day. A bull of 11 March 1102 from Paschal II to Giovanni, bishop of Fiesole.

The present building was paid for with an indulgence. It goes back to no earlier than 1441: with pope Eugene IV then in Florence, a special indulgence was issued to anyone making a donation towards the construction of the oratory.

But it was a rebuilding, and the evidence is in the wall. Under the portico, in the first stretch of the right-hand wall, are remains of filaretto belonging to a building of more modest dimensions — perhaps precisely the one recorded in the twelfth-century document.

Around 1514 it changed owner together with the pieve. The oratory and the pieve di San Leolino both increased the patrimony of the Florentine ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova.

In 1565 that hospital drew a map of it. A cabreo — an inventory of the hospital's properties, the Campione delle Piante delle possessioni dello Spedale di S. Maria Nuova — includes a sheet showing the Podere di Sant'Eufrosino di sopra, with its boundaries, its annotations and three buildings: the Cappella, the Casa del lavoratore and the Oratorio di San Frosino.

The seventeenth century added the portico and rearranged the inside. The portico went across the facade and down the right side; within, restorations rebuilt the altars and made the large niche for the plaster statue of the saint and a small reliquary.

In 1852 the cult acquired an organisation. An association was founded to spread it, with printed images of Sant'Eufrosino carrying prayers of intercession.

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