San Matteo in Merulana

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Basic data
Patronage : Saint Matthew (Apostle)
Architect :
Architectural style :
Title church 112 - December 23, 1801
Construction time:
Consecration :
Rite: Roman rite
Address: Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 28.3 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 8.6"  E

Crossing Via Merulana and Via Alfier

San Matteo in Merulana was a Roman Catholic monastery and titular church in Rome . It became the titular church by the Bishop of Rome Alexander I in 112. On March 1, 499, she was included in the list of the Synod of Rome. Pope Gregory the Great abolished the title.

history

The church was rebuilt in 1110 under Pope Paschal II . Pope Innocent III In 1212 she had her restored and a hospice built in the south. The church and hospice were entrusted to the Order of the Cross of Bologna to look after them. At the end of the Middle Ages the order fell into disrepair. In 1477 he was withdrawn from caring for the church and handed over to the Augustinian order . In 1499 a Byzantine icon came into the church, which had been stolen from Crete by Italian merchants and which later became known as the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help .

Pope Leo X raised San Matteo back to titular church in 1517. During the reign of Pope Innocent X , the church was declared derelict and the arm of the evangelist Matthew , venerated as a relic , was brought to Santa Maria Maggiore . In the reign of Pope Clement IX. (1667–1669) San Matteo was rebuilt. In 1776 Pius VI decided . that no more cardinals should be appointed for this title. On December 23, 1801, the title was transferred from Pope Pius VII to Santa Maria della Vittoria , as the church had become dilapidated. During the French occupation of Rome in 1810, the buildings were demolished.

The miraculous image came to the Church of Santa Maria in Posterula in 1819 and was brought to the Church of the Savior and Saint Alfonso of Liguori in 1866 .

Cardinal priest

Web links

Romanchurche's entry on San Matteo in Merulana on catholic-hierarchy.org

Remarks

  1. ↑ It was dissolved by Pope Alexander VII in 1656 .