Santa Maria in Palmis

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Basic data
Patronage : St. Maria
Consecration day : 1637
Medal: Congregation of the Holy Archangel Michael
Parish: San Sebastiano fuori le mura
Address: Via Appia Antica 51
00179 Roma
The exterior of the church

Santa Maria in Palmis , also: Santa Maria delle Piante , lat . : Sanctae Mariae in Palmis , better known under the name Domine Quo Vadis? , is a small church in the south of Rome in the XI. Appia Antica municipality in the Appio-Latino district . It is about 800 m from Porta San Sebastiano and is at the junction of Via Appia Antica and Via Ardeatina . Today the church belongs to the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel .

history

The church was built in the 9th century on the spot where, according to the apocryphal Acts of Peter ( Acts of Peter of fleeing from Rome) Peter to Christ met. The apostle asked Jesus where he was going ( Domine, quo vadis? - Lord, where are you going? ). He answered him with “Venio Romam iterum crucifigi” ( I come to Rome to be crucified again ). As a result, Peter returned to Rome ashamed to suffer his martyrdom .

In 1637, Cardinal Francesco Barberini had the chapel rebuilt in today's baroque form.

According to Roman tradition, this point on the Via Appia marks the place that a soldier of Hannibal had approached closest to the city of Rome during the Second Punic War .

Building and interior

"Footprints of Christ"

The single-nave church was built in the 9th century and completely redesigned in 1637 on behalf of Francesco Barberini . In the interior of the church, near the main portal, there is a copy of a stone (original in San Sebastiano, all Catacombe ) with footprints that, according to legend, come from Jesus Christ. Hence the nickname in palmis from the Latin palma for foot surface, as well as delle piante , which has the same meaning in Italian. In fact, the stone is a votive plaque for a happy return, believed to have come from the temple of Deus Rediculus (The God of Repentance), which stood near the church.

In the church there is a monument to Henryk Sienkiewicz , the author of the novel Quo Vadis .

  • altar

  • Depiction of the crucifixion of Peter

  • Henryk Sienkiewicz 'monument

See also

Web links

Commons : Santa Maria in Palmis (Rome)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Rome
  2. ^ Claudio Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Roma 2007, ISBN 978-88-541-0931-5
  3. ↑ Parco Regionale della Appia Antica, Itinerario 1, 1b.5 ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 825 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parcoappiaantica.it

Coordinates: 41 ° 51 ′ 59.4 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 13.4"  E