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San Callisto

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|name=San Callisto

|other name=St. Callistus
S. Calixti {{in lang|la}}

|native_name=Chiesa di San Calisto

|image=Trastevere - S. Callisto.JPG

|caption=Facade of San Callisto.

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|location=Piazza di San Calisto, Rome

|country=Italy

|province=Diocese of Rome

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|denomination=Roman Catholic

|tradition=Roman Rite

|cardinal protector=Wim Eijk

|dedication=Pope Callixtus I

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|status=Titular church

|architect=Orazio Torriani

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|architectural type=Church

|groundbreaking=8th century AD

|completed date=1613

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|website=[http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/Ente.asp?ID=806 Official website]

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San Callisto ({{langx|en|Saint Callixtus}}, {{langx|la|S. Calixti}}) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built over the site of Pope Callixtus I's martyrdom (c. AD 222).

History

The original building dates from the time of Pope Gregory III (r. 731–741), who ordered the building of a church on the site. The church has been rebuilt twice since, first in the twelfth century, and the current church restored in 1610 by Orazio Torriani for the Benedictine monks of Montecassino.[https://www.turismoroma.it/en/places/san-calisto-san-callisto "San Calisto (San Callisto)", Turismo Roma, Major Events, Sport, Tourism and Fashion Department]

In January 2017, in response to Pope Francis's call for an increase in aid to the homeless, especially during the cold winter weather, the Community of Sant'Egidio opened San Callisto as an overnight shelter, with a hot meal available at a nearby cafeteria.[https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/24076-dinner-and-a-warm-place-to-sleep-how-rome-is-reaching-out-to-the-homeless Brockhaus, Hannah. "Dinner and a warm place to sleep: How the Vatican is reaching out to Rome's homeless", CNA, January 16, 2017]

Established in 1517, the Titulus San Calixti is currently held by Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk.[http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/cardinal/127.htm Cardinal Title S. Callisto] GCatholic.org

Architecture

The seventeenth-century facade carried the coat of arms of Paul V. The altarpiece, by, Avanzino Nucci, depicts the "Glora di San Callisto". The church has a single aisle with a chapel on either side. Within the chapel to the right, two angels attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini support a painting by Pier Leone Ghezzi. The chapel on the left contains the well where Callistus I, later venerated as a saint, was martyred.

List of titular cardinal-priests

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Notes

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References

  • Mariano Armellini, Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Rome, Tipografia Vaticana, 1891. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/I/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/churches/_Texts/Armellini/ARMCHI*/home.html penelope.uchicago.edu].
  • Christian Hülsen, Le chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo, Florence, Olschki, 1927. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/I/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/churches/_Texts/Huelsen/HUECHI*/home.html penelope.uchicago.edu].
  • Giuseppe Momo, Relazione sui lavori di restauro della chiesa di San Calisto in Roma, Rome, Società Arti Grafiche, 1938.
  • Claudio Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Milan, Newton Compton, 2000, p. 57.
  • Giorgio Carpaneto, Rione XIII Trastevere, in AA.VV, I rioni di Roma, Milan, Newton Compton, 2000, vol. III, pp. 831–923.

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Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1613

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Category:Baroque architecture in Rome

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