Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome

Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini (Latin: Sanctissimae Trinity Peregrinorum; German: Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims ) is a Catholic church and a former, eponymous pilgrim home in the district Regola in the historic center of Rome. The church was founded by Philip Neri pilgrim hospice was built in the late 16th century on the Piazza della Trinità dei Pellegrini near the Ponte Sisto and the Palazzo Farnese in 2008 and has personal parish for the faithful of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

Pilgrims hospice

Philip Neri, who had come from Florence to Rome for studies, decided in view of the plight of the homeless shelter and pilgrims to Rome, to devote himself to the accommodation and care of the poor and sick pilgrims. To this end he founded in 1548 the Confraternity of the pilgrims and the sick of the Most Holy Trinity ( SS Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti ), and later the Hospice of the Holy Trinity, in which the pilgrims as "guests of God" for nothing received room and board. 1558 Pope Paul IV allowed the Brotherhood the permanent use of the 1186 first mentioned parish church of San Benedetto in Arenula at today, named after the Pilgrims Hospice Piazza della Trinità dei Pellegrini. This was the predecessor of the present church. A year later, the Brotherhood began with the establishment of the hospice building diagonally opposite the church, which was already extended in the Holy Year 1575. St. Philip Neri drew pilgrims contrary to the Milvian bridge to invite them to spend the night in his hospice and to show them the way. He washed them even feet, and following his example did it himself later popes and queens, as Pope Clement VIII in the Holy Year 1600, Queen Christina of Sweden in the Holy Year 1675 or as last Princess Maria Christina of Savoy, later Queen of the Two Sicilies, in the Holy Year 1825. pilgrims received their own clean bed in a large dormitory, were washed and hosted and escorted to the four Erzbasiliken the following day. In the evening, they could still hear a sermon in the Pilgrim Church Ss. Trinità, because it was the Archconfraternity not just about the physical well-being, but even more to the psychological healing of pilgrims. In the Holy Year 1575, the Hospice is said to have housed 170,000 pilgrims (with a then population of Rome of only 40,000 ) and the Holy 1825 there were even 263,000. Sometimes had to bed cards are dealt, so that no one stayed longer than necessary.

The Hospice of the Holy Trinity existed until the dissolution of the Papal States in 1870, when it was expropriated and closed. In the 1970s, one has used it as a billiard club. Built as a replacement Pope Leo XIII. the Jubilee Year 1900, the papal Hospice of Santa Marta in the Vatican. The Confraternity that had been robbed by the expropriation of the hospice function to the pilgrims care essentially belonged in the late 20th century only a few old people. But it has to date established in the former pilgrim Church, which later became the Community of Sant'Egidio passed as a branch church to care for and even celebrated a daily morning Mass there until the establishment of the altrituellen personal parish in 2008.

On the outside front of the pilgrims home a plaque recalls that here Goffredo Mameli, author of the Italian national anthem Fratelli d' Italia, died of injuries from the battle on the Janiculum Hill on July 7, 1849.

Church building

After Pope Gregory XIII. the Brotherhood had the church of S. Benedetto in 1579 Arenula finally transferred as property, they decided the new church, given the dilapidated state. The old church was 1586 terminated and placed at the same place on February 26, 1587 the foundation stone of the new church, which was built up in 1597 after a design by Martino Longhi the Elder. The solemn consecration of the church under the name of Santissima Trinità e San Benedetto took place on 12 June 1616. However essential components such as the dome and the facade could be realized only in the following decades. The baroque and concave curved main façade was built in the years 1722/23 to a design by architect Francesco De Sanctis, where he was inspired by that of San Marcello al Corso by the architect Carlo Fontana. The sculptures of the four Evangelists in the facade niches are the work of the Roman sculptor Bernardino Ludovisi from 1723 / 24th The most outstanding work of art of the church is the painted altarpiece on the high altar of Guido Reni from the year 1625 with a representation of the Holy Trinity, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi who had with the artist 50 years commissioned.

The eight side chapels are the Cross, St.. Philip Neri, St.. Apostle Matthias, Mother of God Mary and Saint Joseph, and Benedict, St.. Pope Gregory the Great, St. Augustine and St. Francis of Assisi ( with an altar painting by Giuseppe Cesari ), Saint Charles Borromeo, and St.. Dedicated to Giovanni Battista de Rossi. The relics of canonized 1881 Giovanni Battista de Rossi ( 1698-1764 ) were originally held in the chapel, but transferred on 23 May 1965 in which he consecrated new Roman church of San Giovanni Battista de Rossi.

Personal parish

On 23 March 2008, built Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini at the request of Pope Benedict XVI. as an example of the implementation of its Summorum Pontificum motu proprio the personal parish Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini for the faithful of the Diocese of Rome, who covet the Holy Mass and the sacraments in the Extraordinary form of the Roman rite. Benedict XVI. wished this construction of the personal parish as a model for the whole Church. The care of the parish was handed over into the hands of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. First pastor is the Australian Father Joseph Kramer FSSP, who lives in Rome since 1977.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Fraternity of St. Peter celebrated Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, in the church on 18 October 2008, a Pontifical Mass in the extraordinary Roman rite. Another Pontifical Mass in the old rite was to All Saints Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera 2009, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in Ss. Trinità dei Pellgrini celebrated. Furthermore, already celebrated the Cardinals George Pell and Franc Rode and on 8 December 2010, Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci.