Canterbury Cathedral.
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Wednesday in Passion Week.
Station at Saint Marcellus’s.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
English: The Church of San Marcello-al-Corso.
Façade by Carlo Fontana
Italiano: San Marcello-al-Corso è una chiesa di Roma.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: sv:User:Torvindus
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The Church of Saint Marcellus, where today’s Lenten Station is held, was one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D. Originally the house of the holy matron, Lucina, where she received Saint Marcellus, it was transformed by her into a Sanctuary and Dedicated to this Holy Pope, whose body rests under The High Altar.
The Mass of today shows us the obstinacy of the Jews in rejecting Jesus, as they had already rejected His Father. The Divine Law, given by Him Whom the Epistle calls six times “The Lord”, “Whose word is stable” declared formally “that one may not shed his neighbour’s blood, nor hate his father in his heart”.
The Members of the Sanhedrin, on the contrary, hated Christ and sought to stone Him (Gospel). Unfaithful to God, “Who orders His laws to be kept” (Epistle), they blamed Jesus “Whom The Father has sent” and Who is The Son of God. “The Father and I are One. The Miracles that I have worked come from My Father.” “Rejecting the legitimate pastor of their Souls, they are no longer His sheep,” and will be replaced by the Gentiles, who, Baptised or reconciled to God at The Easter Festival, are “the sheep who hear His voice and to whom He gives Eternal Life” (Gospel).
The High Altar,
Basilica of San Marcello-al-Corso.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
Permission: CC-BY-SA-2.5.
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Let us be faithful to Jesus and Pray God “to Sanctify our Fast and illumine our hearts” (Collect), in order that, delivered from the abyss into which our sins had made us fall (Gradual), we “may wash our hands among the innocent and proclaim the wondrous works of God” (Communion).
Three Feasts called the Jews to Jerusalem:
1. In The Spring.
Three Feasts called the Jews to Jerusalem:
1. In The Spring.
Instituted to commemorate the departure from Egypt;
2. In The Autumn.
In commemoration of the sojourn of the Jews in tents in the desert;
3. In The Winter (Middle Of December).
Which The Machabees had purified after their victory. It was on the occasion of this last Feast, that Jesus, in the Third Year of His Ministry, spoke the words in today’s Gospel. He was then under Solomon’s Porch, which faces the ravine of Cedron.
Mass: Liberátor meus.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.
The following Text is from Wikipedia.
Mass: Liberátor meus.
Preface: Of The Holy Cross.
The Apse,
Church of Saint Marcellus.
Photo: July 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: SteO153
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The following Text is from Wikipedia.
San Marcello-al-Corso is a Church in Rome, Dedicated to Pope Marcellus I. It is located in Via-del-Corso, the ancient Via-Lata, connecting Piazza Venezia to Piazza del Popolo. It stands diagonally from the Church of Santa Maria-in-Via-Lata (see yesterday's Post).
While Tradition holds that the Church was built over the prison of Pope Marcellus I (who died in 309 A.D.), it is known that the "Titulus Marcelli" was already present in 418 A.D., when Pope Boniface I was Elected here.
Pope Adrian I, in the 8th-Century A.D., built a Church in the same place, which is currently under the modern Church.
The corpse of Cola di Rienzo (an Italian Mediæval politician), was held in the Church for three days after his execution in 1354. In 1519, a fire destroyed the Church. The money collected for its rebuilding was used to bribe the Landsknechts, who were pillaging the City during the Sack of Rome (1527).
The original plan to rebuild the Church was designed by Jacopo Sansovino, who fled the City during The Sack and never returned to finish it. The work was continued by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, who rebuilt the Church, but a Riber Tiber flood damaged it again in 1530. It was only in 1592 that the Church was completed, and, later, Carlo Fontana built the façade.
Under The High Altar, decorated with 12th-Century opus sectile, are the Relics of several Saints, which include those of Pope Marcellus, as well as Digna and Emerita.
While Tradition holds that the Church was built over the prison of Pope Marcellus I (who died in 309 A.D.), it is known that the "Titulus Marcelli" was already present in 418 A.D., when Pope Boniface I was Elected here.
Pope Adrian I, in the 8th-Century A.D., built a Church in the same place, which is currently under the modern Church.
The corpse of Cola di Rienzo (an Italian Mediæval politician), was held in the Church for three days after his execution in 1354. In 1519, a fire destroyed the Church. The money collected for its rebuilding was used to bribe the Landsknechts, who were pillaging the City during the Sack of Rome (1527).
The original plan to rebuild the Church was designed by Jacopo Sansovino, who fled the City during The Sack and never returned to finish it. The work was continued by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, who rebuilt the Church, but a Riber Tiber flood damaged it again in 1530. It was only in 1592 that the Church was completed, and, later, Carlo Fontana built the façade.
The Sacristy Ceiling fresco: "Gloria di San Marcello", by Giovanni Battista Ciocchi.
Church of San Marcello-al-Corso.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Flickr
Author: antmoose
Reviewer: Mac9
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Under The High Altar, decorated with 12th-Century opus sectile, are the Relics of several Saints, which include those of Pope Marcellus, as well as Digna and Emerita.
The last Chapel on the Left is Dedicated to Saint Philip Benizi. The Late-Baroque decoration contains sculptures by Francesco Cavallini and Reliefs by Ercole Ferrata and Antonio Raggi. The first Chapel on the Left has the double tomb of Cardinal Giovanni Michiel and his grandson, Antonio Orso, sculpted by Jacopo Sansovino.
Behind the façade is a Crucifixion (1613) by Giovanni Battista Ricci. Along the first Chapel is an Annunciation by Lazzaro Baldi; in the second Chapel, a Martyrdom of Saints Digna and Emerita (1727) by Pietro Barbieri; in the third Chapel, a Madonna with Child, a fresco of the Late-14th-Century, episodes of The Life of The Virgin by Francesco Salviati, fresco and paintings by Giovan Battista Ricci.
Behind the façade is a Crucifixion (1613) by Giovanni Battista Ricci. Along the first Chapel is an Annunciation by Lazzaro Baldi; in the second Chapel, a Martyrdom of Saints Digna and Emerita (1727) by Pietro Barbieri; in the third Chapel, a Madonna with Child, a fresco of the Late-14th-Century, episodes of The Life of The Virgin by Francesco Salviati, fresco and paintings by Giovan Battista Ricci.
In the fourth Chapel, a Creation of Eve and the Evangelists, Mark and John, frescoes by Perin del Vaga, Matthew and Luke, begun by Perin del Vaga and finished by Daniele da Volterra.
Inside, is a Ciborium (1691) designed by Carlo Bizzaccheri; in the fifth Chapel, is a Monument to Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1726) by Pietro Bracci and a Monument to Cardinal Camillo Paolucci by Tommaso Righi (1776) and Wall Paintings by Aureliano Milani.
"Saint Philip Benizi refuses The Papal Tiara",
by Antonio Raggi (1686). The Church of Saint Marcellus.
Photo: October 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: User:Torvindus
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Inside, is a Ciborium (1691) designed by Carlo Bizzaccheri; in the fifth Chapel, is a Monument to Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1726) by Pietro Bracci and a Monument to Cardinal Camillo Paolucci by Tommaso Righi (1776) and Wall Paintings by Aureliano Milani.
On the Left Nave, in the fifth Chapel, is a San Filippo Benizi (1725), by Pier Leone Ghezzi; in the fourth Chapel, the Conversion of Saint Paul (1560) by Federico Zuccari and his brother, Taddeo, and, on the sides, a History of Saint Paul.
The inside of the Chapel has Busts of Muzio, Roberto, Lelio Frangipane by Alessandro Algardi (1630-1640). In the third Chapel, on the Left, is a "Doloroso" by Pietro Paolo Naldini, Sacrifice of Isaac and discovery of Moses by Domenico Corvi; in the first Chapel, a Madonna and Seven Saints by Agostino Masucci.
The Church has been administered and owned by the Servite Order since 1369.
The inside of the Chapel has Busts of Muzio, Roberto, Lelio Frangipane by Alessandro Algardi (1630-1640). In the third Chapel, on the Left, is a "Doloroso" by Pietro Paolo Naldini, Sacrifice of Isaac and discovery of Moses by Domenico Corvi; in the first Chapel, a Madonna and Seven Saints by Agostino Masucci.
The Church has been administered and owned by the Servite Order since 1369.
Another ancient stational church, S. Marcello, which the tourist usually hustles by it bring on the busy and glamorous Via Corso, with the Piazza Venezia and the white-marble “wedding cake” Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II dominating the end of the street, and at the other end the Piazza del Popolo, one of the other most visited piazze in Rome. This church is usually open during the day from 9:30AM but closes for the typical Roman lunch and siesta from 12:30-2pm; and then us open for visits til 8pm (this writer checked its parish website, so this info is up to date, since some things have changed since Garabaldi’s victories and the Reunification of Italy.).
ReplyDeleteIf one has time to stop and visit this little gem of a church, of course, much changed since the ancient 3rd-C. sanctuary of “Titulus Marcelli” or the 8th-C successor church of P. Adrian I (as mentioned in Zephyrinus’ notes above, this church was destroyed by the disastrous fire of 1519), the “new church” you see today is an architectural masterpiece of two of the great Roman architects, Antonio San Gallo [the younger] (you see his work most notable in the Villa Farnese and the Apostolic Palace, the great building in the right rising above S. Peter’s Square) and finally the facade and exterior finished by Carlo Fontana (the architect who gave us the fountain on the left side of S. Peter’s Square, and numerous chapels and ornate work elsewhere in Rome).
It is easy to overlook by the visitor, overshadowed by the Pantheon which is only 3 short blocks away on the first street south, Via Deo Collegio Romano, and the Trevi fountain is only two blocks off the Corso in the other direction. But as Zephyrinus’ notes reveal, it is a beautiful church with a great artwork to reward the visitor. -Note by Dante P.