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Sant'Onofrio, Rome

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563: 362: 551: 52: 531:, requested and obtained shelter at the monastery of Sant'Onofrio after wandering all over Italy. He spent the last years of his life there, dying in the cloister on 25 April 1595, the evening before he was to be crowned with laurels on the 562: 331:, the one at the monastery was given modern bits to replace those taken back. The original tomb slab of the founder, Blessed Nicholas of Forca Palena, is on the wall to the right of the church entrance. 748: 68: 743: 550: 327:. The fountain in the center of the churchyard was assembled from salvage partly from the destroyed Piazza Giudia’s fountain. When the latter was re-created as the 727: 361: 763: 758: 606: 51: 590: 622: 260: 296: 753: 524: 294:
The "Salita di Sant'Onofrio", a rather steep driveway to the monastery, was used as a location for the 1958 film
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The church has a single cross-vaulted nave with five chapels. The church also contains an altarpiece,
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The monastery was built around 1439 on the site of a hermitage founded two decades earlier by
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La chiesa di s. Onofrio e le sue tradizioni religiose, storiche, artistiche e letterarie
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Iscrizioni delle chiese e d'altri edificii di Roma dal secolo XI fino ai giorni nostri
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Next to the main altar is a Monument to Giovanni Sacco attributed to the school of
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In the third chapel on the left, is a monument of the Cardinal-Priest
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The second chapel has frescoes and stuccoes (1605) by
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Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo

41°53′50″N 12°27′41″E / 41.89722°N 12.46139°E / 41.89722; 12.46139
Rome
Italy
Denomination
Catholic
Tradition
Roman Rite
Religious order
Society of the Atonement
titular church
Dedication
Onuphrius
Renaissance
Diocese
Rome
titular church
Trastevere
Rome
order of knighthood
Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Nicola Canali
Janiculum
Franciscan Friars of the Atonement
Nicola da Forca Palena
Onuphrius
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
lunettes

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