San Pancrazio

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San Pancrazio
Basilica of Saint Pancras
Basilica di San Pancrazio
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Facade
San Pancrazio is located in Rome
San Pancrazio
San Pancrazio
41°53′06″N 12°27′14″E / 41.88500°N 12.45389°E / 41.88500; 12.45389Coordinates: 41°53′06″N 12°27′14″E / 41.88500°N 12.45389°E / 41.88500; 12.45389
LocationPiazza di S. Pancrazio 5D, Rome
CountryItaly
Language(s)Italian
DenominationCatholic
TraditionRoman Rite
Websitesanpancrazio.org
History
Statustitular church, minor basilica
Founded5th century AD
Founder(s)Pope Symmachus
DedicationPancras of Rome
Architecture
Architectural typePaleochristian, Renaissance
Completed1849
Administration
DioceseRome
This article is about the basilica in Rome. For other places named San Pancrazio, see San Pancrazio (disambiguation).

The basilica of San Pancrazio (English: St Pancras; Latin: S. Pancratii) is a Roman Catholic ancient basilica and titular church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum.

The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Pancratii is Antonio Cañizares Llovera. Among the previous titulars, Pope Paul IV (15 January – 24 September 1537) and Pope Clement VIII (18 December 1585 – 30 January 1592).

History[]

The basilica was built by Pope Symmachus (498–514), on the place where the body of the young martyr Saint Pancras of Rome, or Pancratius, had been buried, Via Aurelia miliario secundo ('on the Via Aurelia at the second milestone'). The church was originally placed by him under the care of the clergy of the Church of S. Crisogono. Due to their neglect of the site, Pope Gregory I (590–604) handed it over to the members of the newly founded Benedictine Order after the Lombards sacked their monastery of Montecassino in 580.[1] In the seventh century Pope Honorius I (625–638) built a larger church for the increasing numbers of pilgrims; he placed the relics of the saint beneath the high altar, with a window of access from a semi-circular corridor that led behind and below the altar.[2] In the 17th century, it was given to the Discalced Carmelites, who completely remodeled it. The church underwent further rebuilding in the 19th century, having been heavily damaged during Garibaldi's attack on Rome in 1849; but it retains its plain brick facade of the late 15th century, with the arms of Pope Innocent VIII.[3]

Below the church there are huge catacombs, the Catacombe di S. Pancrazio or di Ottavilla. Entrance is next to the small Museo di S. Pancrazio with fragments of sculpture and pagan and early Christian inscriptions.[3]

Entrance avenue through the forecourt

Cardinal-Priests of San Pancrazio[]

The Church of S. Pancrazio was established as the titulus of a Cardinal-Priest by Pope Leo X on 6 July 1517.[4]

  • Ferdinando Ponzetti (1517–1527)
  • Francesco Corner (1528–1534)
  • Gian Pietro Carafa (1537)
  • Federico Cesi (1545–1550)
  • Juan Álvarez de Toledo (1551–1553)
  • Miguel da Silva (1553)
  • Giovanni Antonio Capizucchi (1556–1562)
  • Bernardo Navagero (1562)
  • Stanislaus Hosius (1562–1565)
  • Simone Pasqua (1565)
  • Tolomeo Gallio (1565–1568)
  • Gianpaolo Della Chiesa (1568–1575)
  • Ippolito Aldobrandini (1586–1592)
  • Girolamo Mattei (1592–1603)
  • Pietro Aldobrandini (1604–1605)
  • Domenico Ginnasi (1605–1606)
  • Ludovico de Torres (1606–1609)
  • Gabriel Trejo y Paniagua (1617–1621)
  • Cosimo de Torres (1623–1641)
  • Gaspare Mattei (1643–1648)
  • Francesco Maidalchini (1653–1654)
  • Carlo Gualterio (1654–1667)
  • (1670–1673)
  • Pietro Vidoni (1673–1681)
  • Antonio Pignatelli (1681–1691)
  • Bandino Panciatichi (1691–1710)
  • Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn (1721–1726)
  • Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti, O.P. (1728–1738)
  • , O.Cist. (1743–1744)
  • (1745–1753)
  • Giuseppe Maria Feroni (1753–1764)
  • Giovanni Battista Bussi (1824–1844)
  • (1848–1851)
  • (1855–1867)
  • Josip Mihalovic (1877–1891)
  • Francesco Ricci Paracciani (1891–1894)
  • Achille Manara (1895–1906)
  • Aristide Rinaldini (1907–1920)
  • Giovanni Bonzano (1922–1924)
  • Lorenzo Lauri (1927–1941)
  • Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta (1946–1982)
  • José Lebrún Moratinos (1983–2001)
  • Antonio Cañizares Llovera (2006–)

References[]

  1. ^ Matilda Webb, The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome: A Comprehensive Guide (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001), p. 273.
  2. ^ Webb, p. 273.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (Milan, 1965) p. 455.
  4. ^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: The Cardinal-Priests of S. Pancrazio Retrieved: 2016-03-12.

Bibliography[]

  • Richart Krautheimer, Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome (IV–IX Cent.) Part II (Roma: 1937), pp. 153–177.
  • John Crook, The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c. 300 – c. 1200 (Oxford: Clarendon 2000), pp. 82–83.
  • Giuseppe Burragato and Antonio Palumbo, Sulle orme di San Pancrazio, martire romano. Culto, basilica, catacombe (Morena (Roma) : Edizioni OCD, 2004).

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