San Pantaleo, Rome

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41°53′50″N12°28′24″E / 41.8971°N 12.4733°E / 41.8971; 12.4733 Coordinates: 41°53′50″N12°28′24″E / 41.8971°N 12.4733°E / 41.8971; 12.4733
Location Rome
Country Italy
Denomination Roman Catholic
Tradition Roman Rite
Architecture
Architectural type Church

San Pantaleo is an ancient church located on a piazza of the same name along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in the Parione neighborhood of Rome, Italy. It shares the Piazza with the Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi. A church at the site dates from the 12th-century, but the present facade (1807) is in a Neoclassical style and the interiors were elaborated in a Baroque style.

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Names

Different sources name the church by various titles, including:

If this were not enough source of confusion, there existed a church in the Rione Monti on the Janiculum Hill, which has been referred to as San Pantaleone alli Pantani or San Pantaleone in Sebucca (perhaps intending in Suburra) [7] or San pantaleonis Trium Clibanorum or Trium Fornorum.

History

Records claim the church at the site was founded by the early 12th century, other records note founding by Pope Honorius III in 1216. [8] In 1418, the church was rebuilt by Alessandro Savelli, who had an adjacent palace. Some notes indicate it was linked to a group of English priests. By 1621, it was restored by the fathers of the Scuole Pie (Piarists) of St Giuseppe Calasanzio, who lived in the adjacent convent. His room is preserved. His relics are held in a porphyry urn in the church. In 1808, under the patronage of Duke Giovanni Torlonia, a facade was commissioned from the architect Giuseppe Valadier. [9]

The significance of the facade frieze not evident; it depicts a cornucopia Christian symbols, scrolls, books, and shields resembling a display of a triumphal procession.

Among the artworks in the interior nave and two chapels are:

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References

  1. Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Mariano Armellini, Editrice Romana, Rome (1887), pp. 498-499.
  2. Le Cose maravigliose dell'alma città di Roma, by Girolamo Franzini, (1601) page 66.
  3. Armellini, page 498
  4. Armellini, page 498
  5. Franzini, page 66.
  6. Roma sacra e moderna: abellita di nuove figure di rame, e di nuovo ampliata, by Francesco Posterla, (1707) page 702.
  7. Italy, in Its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival translated by Edmund Warcupp (1660), Page 170.
  8. Posterla, page 266.
  9. Roma sacra e moderna: abellita di nuove figure di rame, e di nuovo ampliata, by Francesco Posterla, (1707) page 702.
  10. Francesco Posterla.