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The Basilica of Saint Augustine of Hippo in Camp Martius

Written by: Kate Zusmann

Church of Sant'Agostino
Opening Hours
Sunday: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Monday: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Tuesday: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Friday: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Saturday: 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Recommended tour
Closest bus stops
Senato1 min 57 m: 30 70 81 87 492 628
Closest subway stations
Barberini26 min 1.3 km: A
Address P.za di S. Agostino, Roma
Website www.santagostinoroma.it/la-basilica/

Mass Time

Mass is celebrated:
  • Weekdays 8 am, 6.30 pm
  • Sundays and Solemnities 8 am, 10 am, 12:00, 6.30 pm
  • Visitors are not allowed during Mass

Sant’Agostino is a Roman Catholic church in the piazza (square) of the same name, located near Piazza Navona. It is one of the first Roman churches built during the Renaissance. Adjacent to it is the Biblioteca Angelica, a library founded in 1605.

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  • History
  • Title
  • Artworks
  • Tombs
  • Cardinalate
  • Nearby Attractions

History

The construction of Sant’Agostino church was funded by Guillaume d’Estouteville, Archbishop of Rouen and Cardinal Camerlengo (1477-1483). The facade was built by Giacomo di Pietrasanta in 1483 and is made of travertine from the Colosseum. The design of the church is attributed to the late 15th-century architect Baccio Pintelli, with later 18th-century restorations of the interior by Luigi Vanvitelli.

The Titulus S. Augustini has been held by Jean-Pierre Ricard since 2006. In addition, it is the station church of the first Saturday in Lent.

Title

The church’s patron saint was a boy-martyr of Phrygia (now in Turkey) whose relics had been taken to Rome and enshrined there in the 8th century. In 1287, Pope Honorius entrusted the church to the Augustinian Friars for use as their chapel and renamed it Santi Trifone ed Agostino in honor of St Augustine of Hippo. In 1424, the relics of St Monica, the mother of St Augustine, were brought from Ostia and enshrined here.

The title was passed on to Sant’Agostino when that church was completed in 1484, but the older edifice was kept as a subsidiary church in the complex. It was used as the headquarters of a Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament until 1604, the year after the newer church became the parish church instead, and reverted to its former name of San Trifone

The church was demolished in 1736 as part of Luigi Vanvitelli’s project to prolong the previously cramped convent constructions.

Artworks

One of the most famous works of art of Sant’Agostino church is the Madonna di Loreto in the Cavalletti Chapel, which is an important early Baroque painting by Caravaggio.

Michelangelo Caravaggio dei Pellegrini

Moreover, there is a Guercino canvas of Saints Augustine, John the Evangelist and Jerome; a fresco of the Prophet Isaiah by Raphael on the third pilaster of the left nave; and the statue of Saint Anne and Virgin with Child, by Andrea Sansovino.

Inside the church is also the sculpture of the Madonna del Parto (Our Lady of Childbirth) by Jacopo Sansovino based, following the legend, of an ancient statue of Agrippina holding Nero in her arms, which is reputed by tradition to work miracles in childbirth. The statue is laden with thank offerings and always surrounded by flowers and candles.

SantAgostino Organ

In 1616, Giovanni Lanfranco decorated the Buongiovanni Chapel with three canvases and a ceiling fresco of the Assumption. The church also houses Melchiorre Caffa’s sculpture “St. Thomas of Villanova Distributing Alms,” which his mentor Ercole Ferrata finished.

Tombs

sant'agostino interior

The church contains the tomb of Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine, that of Fiammetta, lover of Cesare Borgia and a famous courtesan, and that of Olav Trondsson, archbishop of Norway 1459-1473. His tombstone has the inscription “CVI DEDERAT SACRAM MERITO NORVEGIA SEDEM HIC TEGIT OLAVI FRIGIDVS OSSA LAPIS,” which means: “Here a cold stone covers the bones of Olav, to whom Norway rightly gave the holy chair.”

In 1741, Pietro Bracci designed and sculpted the polychrome tomb of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, who died on 15 January 1737

Cardinalate

Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) established the church as a cardinalate title in April 1587. No titular priest was appointed until 1590, when Gregorio Petrocchini de Montelbro OESA (one of the Augustinian friars) became the first titular. After the death of Marcelo González Martín (appointed in 1973) in 2004, the title was vacant until 2006 when Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, was appointed.

Nearby Attractions

Palazzo Altemps
2 min 330 ft 100 m
The Fountain of Neptune
3 min 520 ft 160 m
Piazza Navona
4 min 660 ft 200 m
The Fountain of the Four Rivers
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Fountain of the Pantheon
5 min 890 ft 270 m
Sant'Agnese in Agone
5 min 890 ft 270 m
Pantheon
6 min 950 ft 290 m
Fountain of the Moor
6 min 1020 ft 310 m
Field of Mars
6 min 1020 ft 310 m
Santa Maria sopra Minerva
9 min 1510 ft 460 m

Author: Kate Zusmann

Kate Zusmann

I have lived in the Eternal City for the past 12 years. They say every angle of Rome has its history, and I'm here to tell you about the most intriguing historical facts and city legends. :)

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