El martirio de San Pedro de Verona Curiosity · Alconera, Zafra - Río Bodión, Badajoz Image of Alconera, not of the place itself. Alconera's patron saint, San Pedro de Verona, was murdered by an assassin who drove a knife into his skull and a sword into his chest; tradition tells that, as he lay dying, he wrote "Credo in Deum" with his own blood. Photo: Adolfobrigido (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Alconera