Santa Croce e San Bonaventura alla Pilotta

Santa Croce e San Bonaventura alla Pilotta or Santa Croce e di San Bonaventura dei Lucchesi is a church in Rome, sited on via dei Lucchesi in the Trevi district, between the Trevi Fountain and the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. It is Lucca's regional church in Rome.

Santa Croce e San Bonaventura alla Pilotta
Church of the Holy Cross and Saint Bonaventure at Piazza della Pilotta
Santa Croce e San Bonaventura dei Lucchesi
Chiesa di Santa Croce e San Bonaventura alla Pilotta
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41°53′59″N 12°29′04″E / 41.8997°N 12.4845°E / 41.8997; 12.4845
LocationVia dei Lucchesi 3, Trevi, Rome
CountryItaly
Language(s)Italian
DenominationCatholic
TraditionRoman Rite
Religious orderSisters of Mary Reparatrix
History
Statusregional church
DedicationHoly Cross and Bonaventure
Architecture
Functional statusactive
Architectural typeBaroque
Completed1575
Administration
DioceseRome

History

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The church is on the site of a medieval church San Nicola de Portiis or San Nicola de Trivio, whose remains can be seen in the present church's crypt. That church had been given to the Capuchin fathers in 1575, who had rededicated it to saint Bonaventure. They moved to a new monastery on Piazza Barberini in 1631 and the church was granted to the Luccans by pope Urban VIII. There was already a small Luccan community in Rome, mainly made up of merchants. They demolished the old church in 1685 and built a new one in 1695 to designs by Mattia de Rossi and dedicated to the Most Holy Cross (Santissima Croce), after the cult of the 'Volto Santo', a piece of the True Cross venerated in Lucca Cathedral. It was restored in the course of the 19th century.

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