Anchor 1 ▼ Main Altar Artist: Alessandro Specchi Date: Early 1700s • The main altar is from a drawing by Specchi ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Chapel of the Passion Artist: Giacinto Brandi Date: 1682 • This painting is Christ Meets Veronica • After Jesus is sentenced to die, he is forced to carry a cross through Jerusalem to a hill outside the city. Traditionally, he meets Veronica who, out of pity, wipes his face with her veil. Miraculously, Jesus' face is imprinted on the veil • The relic today is preserved in St. Peter's basilica

Anchor 1 ▼ Apse Wall Artist: Jacopo Sansovino Date: 1536 • The center has Tomb of Cardinal Francisco Quinones (1540 d). There is a tabernacle in the center with a statue of Solomon on the left and David on the right • To the left is Tomb of Cardinal Carvajal (1522 d). Carvajal commissioned the fresco in the apse above and is pictured in it next to St. Helen ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Pius V • The plaque reads St. Vittoria Martyr ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of Pius IX

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Second Courtyard • This courtyard was originally part of the interior of Pope Leo IV's (847-855) church. After damage in the sack of Rome by the Normans (1084), Pope Paschal II (1099-1118) reconstructed it as a smaller church in 1111 • The entrance to the second courtyard is the location of the original entrance to Pope Leo IV's church • The decorations in the portico and the 5 pillars in the right wall were part of Pope Leo IV's church

Anchor 1 ▼ Colonna Chapel Artist: Lazzaro Baldi Date: 1671 • The painting is Appearance of Christ to St. Rose of Lima ▲ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Our Lady of the Assumption Altar Artist: Unknown Date: 1800s • After the fire, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1796-1855) donated the malachite and lapis lazuli to assist with the rebuilding • The malachite is the green stone and the lapis lazuli is the blue stone ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ Cupola • ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Right Aisle • This was probably the original location of the Oratory of the Manger, which held the relics of Jesus' manger, made by Arnolfo di Cambio around 1289. The Oratory was completely moved into the Sistine Chapel confession in 1587. The manger relics were moved again in 1864 into the present location in the confession in front of the main altar ▼

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Corsini Chapel Artist: Giovanni Battista Maini • The monument is Tomb of Pope Clement XII (1730-1740) • The porphyry urn originally held the ashes of consul Marcus Agrippa (63-12 BC) in the Pantheon. Agrippa was the son-in-law of Emperor Augustus (27-14 BC)

Anchor 1 Baldachin Artist: Arnolfo di Cambio Date: 1285 • The corner statue on the right is St. Paul and on the left is St. Timothy • To the left of St. Paul is the Creation of Adam from Genesis • To the right of St. Timothy is Eve talking with the serpent from Genesis ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Back Wall Artist: Cesare Fracassini Date: 1868 • The painting is Ordination of St. Stephen and Other Deacons • This painting is all that remains of the original eight paintings. The others were destroyed in the World War II bombing of 1943

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Crucifix Chapel Artist: Unknown Date: 1400s • This is a carved crucifix

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Crucifix Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Vincent de Paul • St. Vincent de Paul lived from 1581-1660

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ St. Catherine of Siena's Room Artist: Pirro Ligorio, Giacomo and Tommaso Cassignola Date: 1566 • One of the two statues in this room that is a part of the Funeral Monument of Paul IV. Pope Paul IV was Giampietro Carafa the nephew of Oliviero Carafa the patron of the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas. The rest of the tomb can still be found in that chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ Left Aisle ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Presbytery • This is the original area of the church that was built by Constantine (306-337) in 330 and rebuilt by Pope Pelagius II (578-590) in 578. Later Pope Honorius III (1216-1227) added the nave area • The raised pavement was added in 1254 after the renovations of Pope Honorius III. However, the pavement itself is from the 800s as it was reused Artist: Sons of Paolo; Donated by Abbot Hugh Date: 1148 • The altar has columns of porphyry with a white marble baldachin

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ St. John Baptist de La Salle • St. John Baptist de La Salle lived from 1651-1719