Churches of Rome

Basilica di Santi Quattro Coronati

Fifth century church dedicated to four martyred saints.

Basilica di Santa Maria Degli Angeli e dei Martiri

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs is  inside the Baths of Diocletian located at the Piazza della Repubblica.

Mausoleum of Santa Costanza

This building, the Mausoleum of Santa Costanza, is from the 4th century AD. It was built as a mausoleum for Emperor Constantine's daughter, Costanza, who died in 354 AD.   Although it is now a church, but was built as a Christianity-influenced, Roman mausoleum.

Copy of Constanza's sarcophagus

Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva

The statue in front of the church is from 1667, but the circa 570 BC Egyptian obelisk on top, the shortest in Rome, was brought to Rome by Emperor Diocletian in the 300 AD timeframe.

The basilica Santa Maria Sopra Minerva is a Dominicans church.  It was built in the 1500's and is located in the Piazza della Minerva, just behind the Pantheon .

Basilica di Sant' Agostino

The Basilica di Sant'Agostino is a church located just outside the Piazza Navona.   The church was first built in the 1300s and the present façade from the 1480s.

The church has Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine, tomb,

Santa Maria in Trastevere

The original church on this spot was probably from the early fourth century, it was considered one of the founding churches of Rome.  At about year 1140 that church was replaced by the present one. 

Basilica di Santa Cecilia

Entrance to courtyard

Courtyard and church

The church is located in the Trastevere section of Rome.

Entrance to church on left

The church

This church is devoted to the Roman martyr Cecilia, who was martyred in about 230 AD under Emperor Alexander Severus.  Pope Paschal I rebuilt the 5th-century church in 822, and moved  Saint Cecilia remains here from Rome's Saint Calixtus catacombs.
Above is the year 1600 altar sculpture of Saint Cecilia by Maderno.  The statue depicts the three axe strokes described in the 5th-century account of her martyrdom.
Below, sunlight appears to highlight the Saint's statue.

Chiesa del Gesu

Chiesa del Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuits, is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome.

Pictures by Tom Aprille ( tomaprille@quartomese.com )                                                                   

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