National churches in Rome
Charitable institutions attached to churches in Rome were founded right through the medieval period and included hospitals, hostels, and others providing assistance to pilgrims to Rome from a certain "nation", which thus became these nations' national churches in Rome (Italian: chiese nazionali). These institutions were generally organized as confraternities and funded through charity and legacies from rich benefactors belonging to that "nation". Often, they were also connected to national scholæ (ancestors of Rome's seminaries), where the clergymen of that nation were trained. The churches and their riches were a sign of the importance of their nation and of the prelates that supported them. Up to 1870 and Italian unification, these national churches also included churches of the Italian states (now called "regional churches").
Many of these organizations, lacking a purpose by the 19th century, were expropriated through the 1873 legislation on the suppression of religious corporations. In the following decades, nevertheless, various accords – ending up in the Lateran Pacts – saw the national churches' assets returned to the Catholic Church.
Italian regional churches
[edit]- Abruzzo: Santa Maria Maddalena in Campo Marzio
- Apulia: Basilica di San Nicola in Carcere
- Basilicata: San Nicola in Carcere
- Calabria: San Francesco di Paola ai Monti
- Campania: Santo Spirito dei Napoletani
- Dalmatia: San Marco Evangelista in Agro Laurentino
- Emilia-Romagna: Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio dei Bolognesi
- Istria: San Marco Evangelista in Agro Laurentino
- Lazio:
- Marche: San Salvatore in Lauro
- Piedmont: Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
- Sardinia: Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
- Sicily: Santa Maria Odigitria al Tritone
- Tuscany:
National churches
[edit]Africa
[edit]Americas
[edit]- Argentina: Santa Maria Addolorata a Piazza Buenos Aires
- Canada: Nostra Signora del Santissimo Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi
- Chile: Santa Maria della Pace
- Ecuador: Santa Maria in Via[1]
- Mexico: Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo Martire
- Peru: Sant'Anastasia al Palatino
- United States of America:
Asia
[edit]- Japan: Santa Maria dell'Orto
- Lebanon: San Marone
- Philippines: Santa Pudenziana
- Syria: Santa Maria della Concezione in Campo Marzio
Europe
[edit]- San Giovanni della Malva in Trastevere[4][5]
- Sant'Atanasio a Via del Babuino (Græco-Byzantine rite)
- San Basilio agli Orti Sallustiani (Græco-Byzantine rite)
- Santa Maria in Cosmedin (Græco-Melkite rite)
- San Teodoro al Palatino (Eastern Orthodox)
- Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio
- Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi (demolished)
- Santo Stefano in Piscinula (demolished)
- Norway: Sant'Olav (within Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso)
- Poland:
- Portugal: Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi
- Romania: San Salvatore alle Coppelle (Byzantine-Romanian rite)
- Russia: Sant'Antonio Abate all'Esquilino
- Scotland:
- Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi (deconsecrated)
- Il Pontificio Collegio Scozzese
- Santi Sergio e Bacco
- San Giosafat al Gianicolo
- Santa Sofia a Via Boccea (Byzantine-Ukrainian rite)
Note
[edit]- ^ Reserved to the Swiss Guards.
References
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Bibliography
[edit]- Giuliani, Raffaella (1999). "The Martyr's Sanctuaries (The Catacombs)". In Gioia, Francesco (ed.). Pilgrims in Rome: the official Vatican guide for the Jubilee Year 2000. New York City: Continuum. p. 124. ISBN 0-8264-1187-8. LCCN 99029745. OCLC 41278452. OL 39835M. Retrieved 2022-04-22 – via Internet Archive.
- Sabatini, Carlo, ed. (1979). Le chiese nazionali a Roma [National churches in Rome] (in Italian). Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.
- Roma. La biblioteca di Repubblica Italia (in Italian). Vol. 2. Milan: Touring Club Italiano. 2004. OCLC 1045898482.
External links
[edit]- "Churches of the Nations and of the Guilds in Rome". Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveller. Archived from the original on 2021-11-15. Retrieved 2022-04-22.