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Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Latin Sanctae Crucis Hierusalem), is one of the seven churches of Rome and the pilgrims were to visit on foot in a day. In the sixteenth century, the tradition was revived by St. Philip Blacks.
The complex of Santa Croce Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, facade of the Oratory of Santa Maria BuonaiutoFu were built in the place where the palaces of the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine I, at the Lateran. There were preserved, according to contemporary sources, the relics of the cross.
The church is located about 1 km east of the Lateran, the Aurelian Walls. Was obtained from Sessoriano Palace, dating from the third century and that was the home of the last emperors. A room of this building, 21.8 m long 36.5 m wide was adapted into a church in 350.
Under Pope Lucius II, in the twelfth century, the church was restored and later features, such as demonstration of power of a tower. During the Renaissance and the Baroque (XV - XVIII century) were other changes, which completely destroyed the original appearance of the church. In particular note is the restructuring baroque, commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV Domenico Gregorini and Pietro Passalacqua (1740-1758), author of the beautiful facade and oval atrium, one of the last branches of Borromini's architecture before the advent of neo-classical. Currently part of the original frescoes of the old building are preserved in the Museum.
Beginning of the twelfth century to the sixteenth century the church was attached to a convent of Carthusians.
Nnesso proceeds between the convent and the walls of the amphitheater and the Military, Pope Sixtus IV in 1476 rebuilt the Oratory of Santa Maria del Buonaiuto, which originally stood halfway between Holy Cross and St. John. The people called it Santa Maria de Spazzolaria the fact that the sexton gathered (brushing) the obols left for the church, and so remained.
The eighteenth century restoration led to a complete renovation of the indoor environment, which the vault was decorated by three large paintings by Corrado Giaquinto Molfetta, one of the most celebrated artists of the time (1743).
Another treasure is the mosaic icon of the fourteenth century, now located in the Museum of the Basilica, that would make Pope Gregory the Great, after a vision of Christ. It is surrounded by a wooden frame, very large, which leaves little space for the icon itself.
