It was
built over the pre-existing church S. Salvatore in Portico of the sixth
century, in turn built on the ruins of the ancient TEMPLE OF MATER MATUTA
Rebuilt in
1482 with money from a bequest of Stefano de Satri Baronilis, warden of the
nearby hospital of S. Maria in Portico. The tomb of his family is in the church
Granted in
1575 to the Università dei Sarti (University of the Tailors) who
restored it and dedicated it to St. Homobonus Tucenghi from Cremona, who lived
in the second half of the twelfth century, protector of clothes collectors
Other
restorations in the years 1767, 1856, 1877, 1942 and 1964
CEILING
Painting “Virgin
Mary between Sts. Homobonus and Anthony” by Cesare
Mariani (1826/1901)
3rd
CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
“Tomb
of the Satri family” of the fifteenth century, with peculiar iconography of the
seventeenth century with Eternal Father, divine tailor, making Adam wear a fur
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