Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Left Aisle

Anchor 1 ▼ Chiesa del Preziosissimo Sangue •

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ North Entrance

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ St. Processus and St. Martinian • The left oval is St. Anthony Claret. St. Anthony Claret (1807-1870) established the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The order is also known as the Claretians

Anchor 1 ▶ ▲ ◀ Interior Church established: 1670 • The church is elliptical in shape and is a combination of polychrome marbles. The dual pairs of fluted red and white cottanello columns support an architrave that bends with the church • The carrara marble pilasters form eight chapels. These chapels were designed by Mattia De Rossi who was an assistant to Bernini • The Corinthian columns have the Pampili dove with an olive branch sitting on them • The arches opening to the side altars are cottanello marble with Sicilian jasper friezes and spandrels

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Francis Borgia Artist: Pier Francesco Mola • The painting is Conversion of St. Paul ▲ ◀

Anchor 1 S. Croce in Gerusalemme Traditional date of Sessorian Palace: 200s Original church: 300s Pope Lucio II renovation: 1144-1145 Pope Benedict XIV renovation: 1740-1758 • When St. Helen returned from Jerusalem with the cross she also brought soil from Calvary. This church is built on top of that soil. Thus the name of this church: Holy Cross in Jerusalem Artist: Domenico Gregorini; Pietro Passalacqua Date: 1744 • The facade inscription reads: Pope Benedict XIV, in Honor of the Holy Cross, in the Fourth Year of His Pontificate • The statues, from left to right are: St. Helen, St. Luke, St. Matthew, two angels, St. John, St. Mark, Constantine • The campanile is from around 1144

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ St. Louis Grignion de Montfort • St. Louis Grignion de Montfort lived from 1673-1716

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Francis Xavier ▲ ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Borghese Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Paul Icon • This icon commemorates the first time that a primate of the Greek Orthodox Church made an official visit to the Pope and Church of Rome. The archbishop of Athens Christodoulos met Pope Benedict at St. Paul outside the Walls on December 14, 2006

Anchor 1 ▼ Conversion of St. Paul Altar ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Cupola Artist: Girolamo Muziano; Nicola La Piccola • The cupola mosaics are various icons about Mary • The pendentives, from top left clockwise, are the doctors of the church St. Jerome, St. Gregory the Great, St. Basil the Great, and St. Gregory Nazianzen. Relics of St. Gregory Nazianzen are in the Gregorian chapel below ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ Holy Family Chapel Artist: Niccolo Circignani • The lunette is Slaughter of the Innocents • The pendentives are prophets ▲ ▶

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Anchor 1 ▼ Baptistery Artist: Carlo Fontana (design) Date: 1725 • Font's bronze cover Artist: Unknown Date: 1695 • The porphyry font was originally used as the grotto tomb of Emperor Otto II (955-983). He is still buried in the grottoes ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Francis Borgia

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Jerome Artist: Domenichino Date: Mosaic copy • The altarpiece is Last Communion of St. Jerome. St. Jerome (340-420 ca.) in Bethlehem receives Eucharist from St. Ephraem • The original painting is in the Vatican Pinacoteca

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Papal Altar

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Helen • The doorway leads to the Chapel of St. Helen