Largo Visconti Venosta/Via Giovanni Lanza
1770/78 Giovanni Francesco Fiori (1709/84) the Roman architect who had already built the adjacent MONASTERY 1749/60 for the Old Maids of S. Francesco di Paola also known as Paolotte
During the enlargement of the chancel in 1793 a silver wedding trousseau was found dating back to the late Roman Empire. It was called Treasury of Secundo and Proiecta and now it is in the British Museum
Now the church is entrusted to the Centro Oratori Romani (Headquarters of the Roman Oratories)
In the monastery there is the Command of the Carabinieri Corps
MAIN ALTAR
“Mary with Sts. Joachim and Anne” by an anonymous eighteenth-century artist with the figure of Mary added by the purist Pio Bottoni (1883/1936)
LEFT ALTAR
Dating back to the eighteenth-century inlaid with precious marble
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