Santa Lucia in Septisolio

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Engraving of the Septizodium by Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570), which gave the church its name.

Santa Lucia in Septisolio was one of the original seven deaconies in Rome . It also had a church and stood at the foot of the Palatine Hill near the Septizodium of Septimius Severus , which gave the diakonia its name. The time of the destruction of the church is unknown; it probably disappeared after the pontificate of Sixtus V (1585–1590).

Origin of name and place

The church was on the southern corner of the Palatine Hill and took its name from the ancient Roman ruin Septizodium of Septimius Severus that lay there. The name septizodium is derived from septisolium, which means Temple of the Seven Suns and was named after the seven planetary deities ( Saturn , Sun , Moon , Mars , Mercury , Jupiter , and Venus ), or for the fact that it was originally divided into seven parts was. Therefore, the Church of Saint Lucia , which is nearby as in Septisolio, is in Septizonium (both refer to the Septizodium), in septem solium, de septum solis, de sedes solis (reference to the seven suns), or de septem viae or in septem vias ( i.e. the seven ways). The catalog of Pietro Mallio, published during the pontificate of Pope Alexander III. (1159–1181), it is referred to as S. Lucie Palatii in cyrco iuxta Septa Solis , (the church of) Saint Lucia on the Palatine, in the circus near the seven suns. Mariano Armellini assures his readers that these are all more or less names of the same monument.

During the height of the Roman station worship in the sixth century until its decline in the eleventh and its end in the fourteenth centuries , it served as the ecclesia collecta for the Friday of the first week of Lent . That said, this was the meeting point for the papal procession that was moving towards the station church of the day, Santi Giovanni e Paolo .

history

She was titled deaconry since the first century . The church is listed in the Liber Pontificalis as one of the oldest diaconia in the city. Diakonia is mentioned in the biography of Pope Leo III. (795-816) and Gregory IV. (827-844) and was located next to the church. The church is called by Armellini as assai vasta e ricchissimamente decorata, quite large and richly decorated.

Although the church survived until the pontificate of Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590), it was probably demolished afterwards, according to Armellini. Pope Sixtus V also canceled the cardinal title in 1587.

Cardinal deacons

The following persons were title holders of the diakonia:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Mariano Armellini: Le chiese di Roma dalle loro origini sino al secolo XVI ( Italian ). Tipografia Vaticana, Rome 1887, p. 318.
  2. ^ Ferdinand Gregorovius: History of the city of Rome in the Middle Ages , Volume 3. Cambridge University Press, 1895, ISBN 978-1-108-01502-8 , p. 541.
  3. ^ Theodor Dombart: The Palatine Septizonium in Rome . Beck, Munich 1922.
  4. ↑ a b c Christian Hülsen: S. Luciae in Septem Soliis . In: Le chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo ( Italian ). Leo S. Olschki, Florence 1927, p. 305.
  5. ^ John Baldovin: The Urban Character of Christian Worship: The Origins, Development, and Meaning of Stational Liturgy . In: Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Orientalium (ed.): Orientalia Christiana Analecta . 228, Rome, 1987, p. 291.
  6. ↑ David M. Cheney: Santa Lucia in Septisolio (Cardinal Titular Church) (Catholic-Hierarchy). Retrieved September 16, 2017 .