Basilica of Saint Augustine in Campo Marzio, Renaissance basilica in Sant'Eustachio, Rome, Italy
The Basilica di Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio is a Renaissance church building in the Sant'Eustachio district of Rome, a short walk from Piazza Navona. The building follows a Latin cross floor plan with three naves and ten side chapels, while the facade uses travertine blocks taken from the Colosseum.
Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville commissioned the rebuilding of the church between 1479 and 1483 to replace a smaller building that had suffered from Tiber floods. The structure became the first church in Rome dedicated to the church father and home to his religious order.
The name recalls the North African church father whose relics were once kept in the earlier church on this site. Visitors today come mainly for the paintings and sculptures displayed in the side chapels, created by leading artists of the Italian Renaissance.
The church opens daily for religious services and visits, with the entrance located at Via della Scrofa 80 in central Rome. A visit can easily be combined with a walk through the surrounding neighborhood, where narrow streets and small shops invite exploration.
The church kept the name Sant'Agostino but is formally dedicated to Saints Tryphon and Augustine: the relics of Saint Tryphon of Campsada, martyred around AD 250, lie beneath the high altar. Saint Monica, Augustine's mother, died in 387; her tomb was moved here from Santa Aurea in Ostia Antica on 11 April 1424, and her sarcophagus was carved by Isaia da Pisa in 1455.
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