Via S. Vito/Via Carlo Alberto 47
Mentioned in the sources at the end of the eighth century also as San Vito in Macello Martyrum (St. Vitus in the Slaughterhouse of the Martyrs) because it stood close to the MACELLUM LIVIAE (Livia’s Slaughterhouse)
According to tradition, St. Vitus came from Sicily and was martyred under Diocletian (284/305) in 303 with his teacher St. Modestus
The church was rebuilt for Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (1471/84)
In the twentieth century its orientation was reversed with entrance on Via Carlo Alberto
The restoration of the years 1973/77 returned the orientation of the fifteenth century
“Marble portal of Sixtus IV” 1477
ALTAR ON THE RIGHT
“Virgin Mary and Child with Saints” 1483 maybe by Antonio Aquili aka Antoniazzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508)
Near the altar, behind a lattice, there is the so called pietra scellerata, an ancient Roman stone with a funerary inscription, believed to be the stone on which Christians were martyred over the centuries and scraped to obtain powder with alleged therapeutic powers
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