In the place indicated by the legends, the church of San Ceccardo ad Acquas was built, at least as early as the 14th century, containing a small spring that sprang up where the first stream of blood of the martyr would have touched the ground (a similar legend is at the base of the
Tre Fontane monastery in Rome). His body is kept in the
Cathedral of Carrara and has undergone at least five recognitions: in 1599 during the episcopate of Giovanni Battista Salvago, in 1625, in 1782 and in 1949, during the episcopate of Carlo Boiardi, bishop of Apuania. The last survey was carried out at the end of the 90s of the twentieth century. The cult of San Ceccardo, bishop and martyr, was strongly promoted by the Canons Regular of
San Frediano of Lucca, who took care of the cathedral until the late eighteenth century, when the Duchess of Modena had the church transferred to the diocesan clergy. This propaganda activity was part of a targeted action of pressure by the above-mentioned canons, aimed at the recognition of the jurisdiction "nullius diocesis" of the church itself. However, this doesn't take anything away from the strong devotion of the citizenship since the most remote times to San Ceccardo - to whom tradition attributes many miraculous interventions.
Feast day The solemnity of St. Ceccardo, patron of the town, of the municipality and of the vicariate of Carrara, is June 16. ==References==