The Church Of San Of Makuta Photo: The Church Of San Of Makuta

San of Makuta – the Church located in the eponymous square in Rome Column near the Jesuit College of San Roberto Bellarmino in the Palazzo Gabrielli-Borromeo. This is the only Church in Italy dedicated to the Breton Saint Malo. Holy was from Wales and was a member of the monastic community founded by Kadoka Wise. Later Little moved to Brittany, where he founded a monastery that became a center of religious life. Few died in the first half of the 7th century, and revered the Holy Ghost was from the 11th century. The city in which he lived, was named in his honor Saint Malo

The first mention of the Church that meets in 1192. In the second half of the 13th century it belonged to the Church of San Marcello al Corso, later belonged to the Dominican order, and in 1422 he was a parish Church. In the 16th century monastic order from Bergamo, who at the time was owned by the Church dedicated to the Martyr of Saint Alexander of Bergamo, and the building in 1560 acquired a new look by architect Giovanni Alberto Galvani.

In the first half of the 18th century the monks from Bergamo by order of Pope Benedict XIII granted the Church to the Jesuits, and consecrated the new Church of the Celtic Saint Malo. And today the Church of San of Makuta belongs to the Jesuits.

The facade of the single-nave Church was built in the 15th century, and the internal decorations were somewhat modified in 1819 by the architect Benedetto Piernicola who deleted the original wooden arches. Interestingly, monks Bergonzi by leaving the Church, took away all the furniture, so the Jesuits had to redo San of Makuta.

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