San Sebastiano fuori le mura
San Sebastiano fuori le mura | ||
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Basilica of Saint Sebastian Outside the Walls | ||
San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas | ||
Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le mura | ||
Style Baroque | | |
Completed | 18th century | |
Administration | ||
Diocese | Rome |
San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian beyond the Walls), or San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas (Saint Sebastian at the Catacombs), is a minor basilica in Rome, Central Italy. Up to the Great Jubilee of 2000, San Sebastiano was one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, and many pilgrims still favour the traditional list (not least perhaps because of the Catacombs and because the Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore, which replaced it in the list, is farther from the inner city).
History
Built originally in the first half of the 4th century,
According to the founding tradition,
Sebastian's remains were moved here around 350. They were transferred to St. Peter's in 826, fearing a Saracen assault: the latter, in fact, materialized, and the church was destroyed.[6] The building was refounded under Pope Nicholas I (858–867), while the martyr's altar was reconsecrated by Honorius III (1216–1227), by request of the Cistercians, who had received the place. In the 13th century the arcade of the triple nave was walled in.
S. Sebastiano is one of the seven basilicas travellers to Rome traditionally visited, especially after 1553 when St.
The current edifice is largely a 17th-century construction, commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in 1609 from Flaminio Ponzio and, after Ponzio's death in 1613, entrusted to Giovanni Vasanzio, who completed it.
Overview
The statue of St Sebastian at the altar in the first chapel on the left is by
Bernini
On the right side in a niche, the famous Bust of the Saviour (Salvator Mundi), the last masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini rediscovered in 2001 in the convent adjacent to the church, is shown.[10][11]
Burials
See also
Notes
- ^ The granite columns were reused from the 13th-century reconstruction. (TCI, Roma e dintorni)
- ^ According to Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (1965) p. 395.
- ^ "Secondo la tradizione", Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (1965) p. 395.
- ^ "The Basilica of St. Sebastian Outside the Walls", Arte.it
- ^ Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni, eo. loc.
- ^ "Guerra santa. Quell'anno in cui i musulmani presero Roma".
- ^ Schneible, Ann. "Visiting the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome", Zenit, November 12, 2012
- ^ Erik Inglis, “Inventing Apostolic Impression Relics in Medieval Rome,” Speculum 96/2 (April, 2021), 309-66.
- ^ About 1716 according to TCI Roma e dintorni.
- ^ Petrucci 2022.
- ^ catacombe 2022.
References
- Paolo Coen, Le sette chiese. Le basiliche giubilari romane, Newton Compton, Rome, 1994.
- Claudio Rendina, Enciclopedia di Roma, Newton Compton, Rome, 2000.
- "San Sebastiano fuori le Mura", by Chris Nyborg. Archived 2005-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Petrucci (2022). "Il ritrovato busto del Salvatore di Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Estratto dal fasc. 124)".
- catacombe (2022). "Catacombe San Sebastiano".
External links
- "San Sebastiano fuori le Mura" site
- "Beggar's Rome" - A self-directed virtual tour of S. Sebastinao fuori le Mura and other Roman churches
Media related to San Sebastiano fuori le Mura at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio |
Landmarks of Rome San Sebastiano fuori le mura |
Succeeded by San Silvestro in Capite |