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Santa Prisca is a basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 church in
Churches of Rome

There are more than 900 Churches in Rome. Most, but not all, of these are Roman Catholic, with some notable Roman Catholic Marian churches....
 Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, devoted to Saint Prisca
Saint Prisca

Saint Prisca was a Ancient Rome young woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. She is revered as a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church....
, a 1st century martyr, on the Aventine hill. It was built in the 4th or 5th century over a temple of Mithras, and is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod.






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Santa Prisca is a basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 church in
Churches of Rome

There are more than 900 Churches in Rome. Most, but not all, of these are Roman Catholic, with some notable Roman Catholic Marian churches....
 Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, devoted to Saint Prisca
Saint Prisca

Saint Prisca was a Ancient Rome young woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. She is revered as a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church....
, a 1st century martyr, on the Aventine hill. It was built in the 4th or 5th century over a temple of Mithras, and is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod. The location is also famous for a Mithraic inscription in the Mithraeum
Mithraeum

Mithraeum is a place of worship for the followers of the mystery religion of Mithraism. They were often constructed underground or in a cave to resemble the cave where Mithras is said to have slain the sacred bull ....
, which is thought to allude to Mithras "shedding... eternal blood" for the salvation
Salvation

In religion, salvation is the concept that God saves humanity from death. As commonly conceived, He has both Will of God and omnipotence to realize human salvation....
 of humanity.

Damaged in the Norman
Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock....
 Sack of Rome
Sack of Rome (1084)

The Sack of Rome of May 1084 was a Italo-Normans sack, the result of the pope's call for aid from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard.Pope Gregory VII was besieged in the Castel Sant'Angelo by the Emperor Henry IV in June 1083....
, the church was restored several times. The current aspect is due to the 1660 restoration, which included a new facade by Carlo Lombardi.

In the interior, the columns are the only visible remains of the ancient church. Also a baptismal font
Font

In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface. For example, the set of all characters for 9-point Bulmer italic type is a font, and the 10-point size would be a separate font, as would the 9 point upright....
 allegedly used by Saint Peter
Saint Peter

Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
 is conserved. The altar in the crypt contains the relics of Saint Prisca; the frescoes in the crypt are by Antonio Tempesta
Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta was an Italy painter and engraver, a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or counter-Mannerism....
. Anastasio Fontebuoni frescoed the walls of the nave with Saints and angels with the instruments of passion. In the sacristy, is a painting of the Immaculate conception with angels by Giovanni Odazzi
Giovanni Odazzi

Giovanni Odazzi was an Italy painter and etcher of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.He was a pupil of Ciro Ferri, then worked under the guidance of Giovanni Battista Gaulli....
, and on the main altar a Baptism of Santa Prisca by Domenico Passignano
Domenico Passignano

Domenico Passignano was an Italy painter of a late-Renaissance or Contra-Mannerism style that emerged in Florence towards the end of the 16th century....
.

Titular priests

The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Priscae is Justin Francis Rigali, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Among the previous titulars, Giovanni Colonna the Elder (1192), Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1937), Angelo Roncalli
Pope John XXIII

Blessed Pope John XXIII , born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli , known as Blessed John XXIII since his beatification, was elected as the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and monarch of Vatican City on 28 October 1958....
 (1953), later Pope, Giovanni Urbani (1958), José da Costa Nunes
José da Costa Nunes

Jos? Cardinal da Costa Nunes was a Portugal prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Macau from 1920 to 1940, Patriarch of the East Indies from 1940 to 1953, and was elevated to the Cardinal in 1962....
 (1962), Giovanni Benelli (1977), Alfonso López Trujillo
Alfonso López Trujillo

Alfonso Cardinal L?pez Trujillo was a Colombian Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family....
 (1983).

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