1630/33, for the Jesuit Father Pietro Gravita
The oratory
was dedicated to St. Francis Xavier co-founder, with S. Ignatius of Loyola, of
the Jesuit Order
It was
restructured in 1670/77 probably by Giovanni Antonio De
Rossi (1616/95) and restored in the second half of 1800s
Father
Gravita was authorized in 1618 to build an oratory in the Collegio
Romano (Roman College) for meetings of the Congregation of the
Most Holy General Communion of Urban Mission
The
congregation was so successful that in 1630 Gravita was authorized to build a
new oratory in the area of the destroyed church of S. Nicholas and
Forbitoribus
The
acoustic properties of the hall are perfect and it was used for concerts and
religious plays
On the
death of Father Gravita in 1658 the oratory took its current name “Caravita”
due to his name being corrupted
ATRIUM
Vault with
frescoes “Triumph of the Eucharist” and “Stories of St. Ignatius” about 1671/73
by the pupil of Pietro da Cortona Lazzaro Baldi
(about 1624/1703) with assistants. They were heavily repainted in the
nineteenth century
On the left
“Wooden cross” of the sixteenth century
Above the
atrium SMALL ROOM OF THE ANGELS meeting room for students congregated in the
College called “the angels”, with frescoes of “Saints” of the eighteenth
century by Gaetano Sortini (1715/86) and Odoardo
Vicinelli (1683/1755) and stucco reliefs “Allegories” 1745/46 by G.B. Maini (1690/1752)
ORATORY
Vault
“Jesus
adored by Sts. Francis Xavier, G.B. De Rossi and Leonardo da Porto
Maurizio”
Walls
frescoed in the second half of the nineteenth century
Main Altar
Canvas: “Holy
Trinity and St. Francis Xavier”, on the left “Archangel Michael” and on the
right “Guardian Angel” painted in mid-1800 even if some incredibly attribute
them to Sebastiano Conca (1680/1764)
“Madonna of
Mercy” maybe by Baldassare Peruzzi (1481/1536)
from the church of S. Rocco
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