Basilica di San Pellegrino Laziosi, Minor basilica in Forlì, Italy
The Basilica di San Pellegrino Laziosi is a church building with three naves, ten side altars, and an apse toward which they converge. A Gothic portal from an earlier church was incorporated into its design.
A Servite convent is documented here from 1288, in a peripheral area then called Santa Maria di Campostrino. The Gothic portal survives from the medieval church, which took its present Baroque form by 1645. The body of Pellegrino Laziosi was placed in the enlarged chapel in 1723; he was canonized in 1726 and became co-patron of Forlì in 1880. Paul VI raised the church to minor basilica in 1977.
This basilica serves as a pilgrimage destination where visitors seek healing and spiritual connection, drawing people throughout the year. The site holds deep meaning for those who honor Saint Peregrine and seek his intercession.
The church stands on the edge of the historic centre, near Corso della Repubblica, in the Campostrino area that still carries the name of the Roman cremation field. The Gothic portal on the facade and the chapter house mark the oldest surviving parts; the interior was remodelled up to 1645. The church is still officiated by Servite fathers from the Philippines.
In the chapter room hangs the Crucifix by Giuliano da Rimini, a work removed during the 19th-century suppression and returned only in 1966. The church has been run since 2009 by Servite fathers from the Philippines, where devotion to Saint Peregrine is strong; in 1984 missionaries brought a relic there to the parish of Saint Peregrine in Montinlupa.
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