• Source: San Giovanni della Pigna, Rome

San Giovanni della Pigna is a small Roman Catholic church located on Traversa Vicolo della Minerva in the rione Pigna of Rome, Italy. The church was made a cardinalate deaconry by Pope John Paul II in 1985.




Description



Initially a church dedicated to Saints Eleuterio and Ginnasi Martyrs was located here. In ruinous state, it was granted by Pope Gregory XIII to the 'Archconfraternity of the Pietà verso il carcerati, led by the Jesuit Giovanni Talier. The lay organization made outreach to prisoners, including galley prisoners. Pope Sixtus V granted them the right to pardon one prisoner under the death sentence. In 1624, the church was refurbished under the designs of Angelo Torroni. The main altarpiece depicts St John the Baptist by Baldassare Croce; a Pieta by Luigi Garzi; and a Martyrdom of St Eleuterio by Giacomo Zoboli.




List of Cardinal Deacons


Francis Arinze (1985 - 2005)
Raffaele Farina, SDB (2007 - )




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar gereja tituler di Roma
• San Giovanni della Pigna, Rome
• Pantheon, Rome
• Pigna (rione of Rome)
• Churches of Rome
• Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía
• Genesius of Rome
• List of fountains in Rome
• St. Peter's Basilica
• Church of the Gesù
• Outline of Rome