Sts. ANDREW AND CLAUDE OF THE BURGUNDIANS

SS. ANDREA E CLAUDIO DEI BORGOGNONI
Piazza S. Claudio/angolo Via del Pozzetto

Built in 1652 in lieu of a pre-existing chapel for the colony of French Burgundians which increased greatly in the years 1632/42 after the Thirty Years War and after a famine
At that time, about 12,000 Burgundians migrated to Rome
Another wave of refugees arrived in 1678

Rebuilt 1729 by Antoine Dérizet (1697/1768)

Now the church is run by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers
It is always open to the perpetual adoration of the Sacrament

FAÇADE
In two niches, on either side of the door, on the left “St. Andrew” 1771 by Luc Breton and on the right “St. Claude” 1771 by G.A. Grandjaquet two sculptors from Burgundy

“Closely related to the works of 1729 was the arrangement of the square just outside St. Claudius, which at the time was divided by that of S. Silvestro by a line of buildings. But the carefully studied effect of proportions that the square must have had was unfortunately totally lost after the demolition, around 1940, of the line of buildings with the subsequent unification of the two squares” (Angelandreina Rorro)

PENDENTIVES
Stuccos “Evangelists” by Pierre de l'Estache (about 1688/1744)

1^st RIGHT - CHAPEL OF St. JOSEPH
In the altar “St. Joseph between two angels” by Guido Francisi
On the left “Dream of St. Joseph” and on the right “Flight into Egypt” 1949 by Cleto Luzzi (1884/1952)

RIGHT ALTAR 
Above the altar “St. Claude recommends to St. Charles Borromeo the citizens of the Franche-Comté” 1731 by Placido Costanzi (1702/59)
On the right “St. Claude” 1939 by Cleto Luzzi

MAIN ALTAR
Canopy of the end of the nineteenth century flanked by two angels where the Sacrament is normally exposed
Fresco in the upper part “Eternal God Blessing” by Antonio Bicchierai (1688/1766)

LEFT ALTAR 
“Resurrection” 1740 by Jean François de Troy (1679/1752)
On the right “St. Andrew” 1939 by Cleto Luzzi (1884/1952)

OLD SACRISTY
Two paintings with the same subject “Sts. Andrew and Claude entrust to Our Lady the citizens of Franche-Comté” one by the Belgian Louis Cousin aka Luigi Gentile (1605/67), the other by Pietro Barbieri (1684/1730), a pupil of Carlo Maratta

NEW SACRISTY
“Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament” by Eugenio Cisterna (1862/1933)