Monday, December 23, 2019

St. TERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS IN PANFILO

St. TERESA DI GESÙ BAMBINO ​​IN PANFILO
Via Gaspare Spontini 17

1928/32 Guglielmo Palombi
Dedicated to St. Therese of Lisieux (1873/97)
Stained glass windows of 1978

CHAPEL OF THE RELICS
Veil that St. Therese of Lisieux dressed when she came to Rome to ask the pope to enter the Carmelite Order at 15 years of age

APSE
“S. Teresa scattering flowers “by Ernesto Ballarini (1845/1922)

CATACOMBA DI S. PANFILO
Catacomb of St. Panphilus

It is located under the church
S. Panphilus was a martyr killed on the year 309
Three floors underground up to 20 m (65.6 feet) deep
On various walls there are frescoes with “Biblical scenes”

At n. 53 of Via Giovanni Paisiello, with entrance through a trap door in the middle of the road, there is a HYPOGEUM of the first half of the fourth century carved into the stone, distinct from the Catacomb of St. Pamphilus
It is a private tomb of one or more Christian families with galleries and a large cubicle with walls painted

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