San Marcello al Corso
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San Marcello | ||
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Church of Saint Marcellus on the Corso (in English) S. Marcelli (in Latin) | ||
Style Baroque | | |
Groundbreaking | 1592 | |
Completed | 1697 | |
Clergy | ||
Cardinal protector | Giuseppe Betori |
San Marcello al Corso, a
The church, dedicated in honor of Pope Marcellus I (d. AD 309), is located just inset from Via del Corso, in ancient times called via Lata, and which now connects Piazza Venezia to Piazza del Popolo. It stands diagonal from the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata and two doors from the Oratory of Santissimo Crocifisso.
History
While the tradition holds that the church was built over the prison of Pope Marcellus I (d. 309), it is known that the Titulus Marcelli was present no later than 418, when Pope Boniface I was elected there. The "Septiformis" litany, commanded by Pope Gregory I in 590, saw the men moving from San Marcello.
Pope Adrian I, in the 8th century, built a church on the same place, which is currently under the modern church.
The corpse of
Under the main altar, decorated with 12th century opus sectile, are the relics of several saints, which include those of Pope Marcellus as well as Digna and Emerita. The last chapel on the left is dedicated to St Philip Benizi. The late-Baroque decoration contains sculptures by Francesco Cavallini and reliefs by Ercole Ferrata and Antonio Raggi. The first chapel on the left has the double tomb of Cardinal Giovanni Michiel and his grandson Antonio Orso sculpted by Jacopo Sansovino.
Behind the facade is a Crucifixion (1613) by
The church is administered and owned by the Servite Order since 1369.
Cardinal Protectors
- Giulio (1144.02.08 – 1158)
- Konrad von Wittelsbach(1163 – 1163)
- Mathieu d’Anjou (1178.12 – 1183)
- Adelardo Cattaneo (1185.03.06 – 1188)
- Fidanzio (1193.02.20 – 1197.02.19)
- Gérard, Cistercians (O. Cist.) (1199 – 1200)
- Pietro Capuano (1200 – 1214.08.30)
- Leone (1221 – 1228?)
- Niccolò Conti di Segni (1228.12 – 1239.12.27)
- Pierre de Bar (1244.05.28 – 1252.02?)
- Guillaume de Vicedominis (1275.06.07 – 1276.09.06 in commendam)
- pro illa viceDeaconry)
- Nicolas l’Aide (1294.09.18 – 1294.10)
- Arnaud de Canteloup (1305.12.15 – 1313.12.14)
- Bertrand du Pouget (1316.12.17 – 1327.12.18)
- Benedictine Congregation of Cluny(O.S.B. Clun.) (1361.09.17 – 1369.10.29)
- Jean Lefèvre(1371.05.30 – 1372.03.06)
- Jean de la Grange, O.S.B. Clun. (1375.12.20 – 1394)
- Bartolomeo Mezzavacca (1378.09.18 – 1383.10.15)
- Antonio Casini (1426.05.27 – 1439.02.04)
- Niccolò d’Acciapaccio (1440.01.08 – 1447.04.03)
- Bartolomeo Roverella (1462.01.26 – 1476.05.02)
- Giovanni Michiel (1484 – 1491.03.14)
- Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem(O.E.S.S.H.) (1503.12.07 – 1511.10.04)
- Francisco de Remolins (1511.10.27 – 1517.03.16)
- Enrique Cardona y Enríquez(1527.11.24 – 1530.02.07)
- Egidio di Viterbo, Augustinians(O.E.S.A.) (1530.05.09 – 1532.11.12)
- Servites(O.S.M.) (1540.01.28 – 1542.09.17)
- Marcello Crescenzi (1542.11.06 – 1552.05.28)
- Miguel da Silva (1552.06.27 – 1553.11.29)
- Girolamo Verallo (1553.11.29 – 1555.10.10)
- Girolamo Dandini(1555.10.25 – 1559.12.04)
- Giovanni Andrea Mercurio (1560.01.19 – 1561.02.02)
- Marco Antonio Amulio(1561.03.10 – 1561.03.17 pro illa vice Deaconry, 1561.03.17 – 1572.03.17)
- Marcantonio Bobba (1572.06.02 – 1575.03.18)
- Giambattista Castagna (later Pope Urban VII) (1584.01.09 – 1590.09.15)
- Benedetto Giustiniani (1591.01.07 – 1599.03.17)
- Paolo Emilio Zacchia (1599.03.17 – 1605.05.31)
- Innocenzo del Bufalo-Cancellieri(1605.06.01 – 1606.01.30)
- François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis (1606.01.30 – 1621.03.29)
- Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri (1621.04.19 – 1641.02.25)
- Pierdonato Cesi (iuniore)(1642.02.10 – 1656.01.30)
- Camillo Melzi (1657.04.23 – 1659.01.21)
- Giovanni Battista Spada(1659.01.27 – 1673.09.25)
- Federico Baldeschi Colonna (1675.01.28 – 1685.04.09)
- Pier Matteo Petrucci, Oratorians (C.O.) (1687.06.09 – 1701.07.05)
- Gianalberto Badoaro(1706.06.25 – 1712.07.11)
- Luigi Priuli (1712.07.11 – 1714.05.28)
- Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach (1714.12.07 – 1738.07.22)
- Raffaele Cosimo De Girolami (1743.09.23 – 1748.02.21)
- Mario Millini (1748.04.01 – 1756.07.25)
- Antonio Maria Erba-Odescalchi (1759.11.19 – 1762.03.28)
- Ludovico Merlini (1762.04.19 – 1762.11.12)
- Giuseppe Simonetti (1766.12.01 – 1767.01.04)
- Servites(O.S.M.) (1802.09.20 – 1828.04.20)
- Thomas Weld (1830.07.05 – 1837.04.10)
- Chiarissimo Falconieri Mellini(1838.02.15 – 1859.08.22)
- Cassinese Benedictine CongregationO.S.B. Cas. (1874.05.04 – 1874.05.29)
- Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi (1875.09.23 – 1875.10.17)
- Luigi Di Canossa (1877.03.20 – 1900.03.12)
- Casimiro Gennari (1901.04.18 – 1914.01.31)
- Franziskus von Bettinger (1914.05.28 – 1917.04.12)
- Francesco Ragonesi (7 March 1921 - 14 Sep 1931)
- Maurilio Fossati, Oblates of Saints Charles and Gaudentius of Novara (O.Ss.G.C.N. ) (13 March 1933 - 30 March 1965)
- Carlo Grano (26 June 1967 - 2 April 1976)
- Dominic Ekandem (24 May 1976 - 24 Nov 1995)
- Sulpicians(P.S.S.) (29 Jan 1996 - 25 Aug 2007)
- Agustín García-Gasco Vicente (24 Nov 2007 - 1 May 2011)
- Giuseppe Betori (18 Feb 2012 - ... )
See also
References
- ^ F. Titi, page 322.
- "San Marcello al Corso", Chris Nyborg.
- Titi, Filippo (1763). Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma. Marco Pagliarini, Rome. pp. 321–324.
Fillipo Titi.
Bibliography
- Darko Senekovic, S. Marcello al Corso, in: D. Mondini, C. Jäggi, P. C. Claussen, Die Kirchen der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter 1050-1300, Band 4 (M-O), Stuttgart 2020, pp. 30–46 (German).
Sources and external links
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