San Saba, Rome
San Saba (Latin: Sancti Sabae ), also Santi Saba ed Ansano, is a church in Rome. It was built in the 6th or 7th century. Its present appearance owes a new building in the 12th and conversions in the 15th century. It is the parish church and title diakonia of the Roman Catholic Church and stands in the rank of a minor basilica.
Location
The church is named after her in the XXI. Roman Rione San Saba on the Little Aventine. Your southeastern back is located in Piazza Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
History and Architectural History
The San Saba Church rests on walls of opus reticulatum, which probably belonged to the barracks of the Fourth Cohort of Vigiles (fire ). In this complex, in late antiquity was a house, which according to tradition, the mother of the church father and Pope Gregory the Great, Saint Silvia, belonged. Silvia founded in this house an oratorio, which was called Cella Nova. About the Oratory, a church was built in the 6th or 7th century, probably marketed as a haven for Greek monks from Jerusalem. The construction therefore was to St. Sabas, consecrated in Italian " San Saba ". He died in 532 at the Mar Saba monastery near Bethlehem and was buried there. The building served as a base of the Eastern Church in Rome to the Great Schism.
Then, from 1054, he first went into the possession of the Benedictines. Pope Lucius II ( 1144-1145 ), however, they handed the Cluniacs. The early Christian church was replaced by a new one of them. Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini, who was abbot of the monastery in commendam, initiated in the mid-15th century, fundamental changes in the exterior; especially the distinctive facade dates from this period. He consecrated the church in addition to the martyr Ansanus, the patron saint of his native city of Siena. Pope Gregory XIII. handed monastery and church finally the Collegium Germanicum et Hungarian specialty. With the end of the monastery complex of San Saba was almost completely abandoned and fell into disrepair.
Only in the years 1909 to 1911 the church was restored under the direction of architect Cannizzaro. It also excavations took place. More restorations followed in 1932, 1943 and 1956. When in 1932 San Saba was established as a parish church, they took over the Jesuits.
Appearance
Striking at the church is the wide, oriented to the northwest façade, which can not be identified the underlying basic structure of the Church. It originated in the mid-15th century. It is divided into three parts: the lower floor strong pillars support an architrave above is an almost closed, broken only by small windows wall surface. The upper part of the facade forms a loggia. Small columns with capitals that suggest acanthus leaves, bear the arcades. The low Campanile and the gable of the nave are almost completely hidden by the facade. In the basement numerous spoils are walled up, as an ancient sarcophagus. In the church a Kosmatenportal leads with an inscription of 1205 at the time of the pontificate of Pope Innocent III.
Affairs
The church follows inside the " modest basilica standard " of the 12th century. The building is designed as a three-aisled basilica, the naves go without transept directly into the vestibule. In the 13th century the left aisle another, short aisle was added. The 14 columns supporting the arcades, are antique. Above the typical steep proportions of the nave of this church type, the window zone follows, only to break through small windows the wall surface. For Rome, rarely is the open roof.
Equipment
Been preserved in the church are parts of the floor in Kosmatenarbeit, as a bishop's throne as well as two choir screen in this technique, they are walled up in the right aisle. The choir screen were created by the Vassalletti who also created the cloisters of the Lateran Basilica and San Paolo fuori le Mura church. The church contains larger fragments of mural paintings from the 8th to the 13th century. Ingredients of the Baroque were removed at the restoration in the early 20th century.
Oratory of St. Silvia
In the sacristy of the oratory of St. Silvia was exposed from 1909 to 1911; the little room contains an apse. He comes from the late 4th or the 5th century and has frescoes from the 7th to the 10th century.
Cardinal deacons
- Augustin Bea (1959-1968)
- Jean Daniélou (1969-1975)
- Jean- Jérôme Hamer (1985-1996)
- Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez (since 1998)
Opening times
The church is open on week days from 6:30 h bis 12:00 clock and 16:00 to 18:30 clock on Sundays and public holidays from 7:00 bis 13:00 clock and 16:00 to 19:00 clock.