San Callisto
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Patronage : |
St. Calixtus I |
| Cardinal priest : | Willem Jacobus Eijk |
| Address: | Piazza di San Calisto 16 - 00153 ROMA |
San Callisto is a small church in the Roman district of Trastevere , next to the Piazza of Santa Maria in Trastevere . It bears the patronage of the holy Pope and martyr Kalixt I and has the rank of titular church .
history
The current baroque hall church of San Callisto was built in 1610 based on a design by Orazio Torriani . The place and the building are connected with the tradition of the martyrdom of St. Kalixt. When Giuseppe Vasi says (1761):
- At this point was the house of the Roman patrician Pontianus, where Pope Saint [Calixt] often withdrew with other believers during the persecution of the Church to pray and baptize those who were converted. After the saint was arrested and severely beaten, he was thrown with a stone on his neck into the well that was in the house and that is still in the small church that was built by Gregory III. Renewed in 741, it still looks more like a chapel than a church. By Paul V. It was the Benedictines left, along with the already by Cardinal Morone to plans by Orazio Torrigiani built Palazzo , where they have set up a beautiful monastery to live there, if they are not in the monastery at St. Paul Outside the walls as a replacement for the monastery they owned on the Quirinal , where the papal palace now stands.
architecture
San Callisto is a single nave building without a tower. The east-facing portal front shows the classical facade order of the Roman Baroque in simple forms.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information (English)
- ↑ Era quivi la casa di Ponziano nobile Romano, in cui il santo Pontefice, in tempo delle persecuzioni della Chiesa; ritiravasi spesso con altri fedeli per fare orazione, e per battezzare quei, che si convertivano alla Fede. Il Santo essendo poi fatto prigione, ed aspramente battuto, con un sasso legato al collo fu buttato nel pozzo, che era nella medesima casa, e che ora si conserva in questa piccola chiesa, la quale essendo da Gregorio III. rinnovata nell'anno 741. ancora si mantiene piuttosto in forma di oratorio, che di chiesa. Since Paolo V. fu conceduta ai monaci Benedettini insieme col palazzo eretto già del Card. Morone sul disegno di Orazio Torrigiani, in cui hanno formato un bel monastero, per abitarvi quando non possono stare in quello di san Paolo fuori delle mura, e ciò in ricompensa del monastero, che avevano sul Quirinale, ove ora è il palazzo Pontificio ( source of text ; Translation RF ).
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 20.7 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 13.2" E