Trinità dei Monti

Encyclopedia : T : TR : TRI : Trinità dei Monti

The facade of the church, from the Spanish Steps.

Trinità dei Monti (or, better, Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio) is a church in Rome. It is located at the top of the Spanish Steps, in Piazza di Spagna.

In 1494 St Francis di Paola, a Calabrian hermit, bought a vineyard from cardinal Ermolao Barbaro, former patriarch of Aquileia, and then obtained the authorization to establish a monastery from Pope Alexander VI. In 1502, Louis XII of France began the Trinità dei Monti church next to this monastery. The church was consecrated in 1585 by the great urbanizer Pope Sixtus V, whose via Sistina connects the Piazza below with the Piazza del Popolo.

From 1828 these Italian properties are entrusted to the Order of the Dames du Sacre Coeur, a French religious order, due to an agreement between Pope Leo XII and Charles X of France.

In front of the church there is the Obelisco Sallustiano, one of the obelisks in Rome.

The church contains the Mater Admirabilis, a fresco depicting the Virgin Mary that has been associated with serveral miracles.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.