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Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of the Relics Artist: Chapel designed by Luigi Vanvitelli • Altar painting is of the Virgin Mary • Numerous relics of saints fill the back wall

▼ Anchor 1 Chapel of the Passion Artist: Filippo Bracci • The vault painting is the Eternal Father • The presence of the Father in the Chapel of the Passion is perhaps because it is God the Father who sends God the Son for the forgiveness of sins and the restoration of God's relationship to humanity

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Nave • This is a holy water font

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Baptistry Artist: Arnaldo Foschini Date: 1930 • While the room is ancient, it was redesigned after the fire. The baptismal font is also a modern work • This also connects to a side entrance of the basilica through the Gregorian Room ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Thomas Artist: Giuseppe Passeri Date: 1675 or 1686 • The altarpiece is The Doubt of St. Thomas the Apostle • John 20:24-29 relates the story here of doubting Thomas who said that he would not believe in Jesus' resurrection from the dead unless he put his hand into the nail marks and into his side. Jesus appears to Thomas and asks him to do so

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Stanislaus Kostka Artist: Carlo Maratta Date: around 1687 • The painting over the altar is St. Stanislaus Receives the Child Jesus from the Hands of the Virgin

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Erasmus ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Organ Loft • The organ lofts were a gift to the church by Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576-1633)

Anchor 1 Grazioli Lante della Rovere Chapel Artist: School of Pietro Vannucci (Perugino) Date: 1490-1510 • The painting is Jesus Christ. It was donated to the church by Pope Clement VIII • The left statue is St. John the Baptist (1602-1603) by Ambrogio Buonvicino • The central statue is St. Phillip Neri (1727) by Roman school • The right statue is St. Sebastian (end 15th-early 16th) attributed to Michele Marini ▲ ▶ ◀ ▼

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Raymond of Penafort Artist: School of Bregno Date: 1495 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Benedetto Sopranzi • Benedetto Sopranzi (1447-1495) was archbishop of Nicosia

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Aldobrandini Chapel Artist: Giacomo della Porta, Nicolas Cordier Date: 1611 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Lesa Deti. Giacomo della Porta designed the statue and Nicolas Cordier executed the work. Lesa Deti (d. 1557) was the mother of Pope Clement VIII • The statue on the left is Charity (1611) by Nicolas Cordier • The statue on the right is Religion (1611) by Camillo Mariani

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Portico

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Main Door • Over the main door it is recorded that the renovations of 1848-1855 were during the reign of Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) • Left of the main door is Funeral Monument of Diotisalvi Neroni. Neroni (1401-1482) was a lawyer from Florence. There are many Florentines buried here as this was the primary church in Rome for the Florentines before the construction of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in 1518

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Capranica Chapel Artist: Giovanni de' Vecchi Date: 1586 • The painting is Stories in the Life of St. Catherine of Siena

Anchor 1 ▼ Nave ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ Baptismal Font Chapel Artist: Roman school Date: 1641 ca. • This is the Funeral Monument of Albano Ferragallo

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Transfiguration

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Helen

Anchor 1 ▼ North Entrance Date: 1500s ▲ ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ Ponziani Chapel Artist: Attributed to Antonio da Viterbo Date: 16th century • This Crucifixion includes the presence of St. Francis of Rome