San Bartolomeo all'Isola

San Bartolomeo all'Isola (Latin: Sancti Bartholomaei in Insula ) is a church in Rome and since 2002 memorial of the martyrs of the 20th century. It is located on the Isola Tiberina about 200 meters southwest of the Theatre of Marcellus. In their place was in ancient times a year 289 BC temple dedicated to Aesculapius. The church dedicated to the Adalbert of Prague and a monastery were in the year 1000 by order of the Emperor Otto III. built.

In 1113 the church was restored by order of Pope Paschal II, the construction of the bell tower was 1118. A further associated with some alterations restoration was carried out in 1583 by the architect Martino Longhi the Elder ( 1534-1591 ). In the years 1623-1624 the main façade was built according to plans by Orazio Torriani or Martino Longhi the Younger. The interior was remodeled 1720-1739 in the Baroque style and in the years 1852-1865 in the style of historicism.

Particularly worth seeing is the Marie Fresco in the Romanesque style and built around the year 1000 richly decorated marble fountain apply.

The church is dedicated to the Apostle and St. Bartholomew, whose remains were brought by Emperor Otto II 983 to Rome, where they are now preserved in San Bartolomeo all'Isola. Then so does the inscription on the façade reference. The skull of the saint was brought to the Frankfurt Cathedral in the 13th century to Frankfurt am Main.

Since 1993, the church is run by the Community of Sant'Egidio; In 2002, Pope John Paul II consecrated the new martyrs of the 20th century. In the six side chapels relics and memorabilia are on display, including a Missal of Archbishop Oscar Romero, a letter from the beatified Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter to his family, written a few days before his assassination, a relic of Blessed Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen, and memories to the resistance fighters Joannes Baptista Sprollenhaus, Eugen Bolz and Maria Restituta Kafka.