HOLY SHROUD OF THE PIEDMONTESE PEOPLE

SS. SUDARIO DEI PIEMONTESI
Via del Sudario 47

 1604/05 Carlo di Castellamonte for Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy

1660/67 and 1682/92 expanded by Carlo Rainaldi (1611/91)

Church of the people from Savoy, Piedmont and Nice in Rome gathered in a fraternity recognized in 1597 with headquarters in the now destroyed church of S. Lodovico, which was originally on the site of the church of S. Andrea della Valle
The Brotherhood then took the name of Arciconfraternita del SS. Sudario (Confraternity of the Holy Shroud)

During the Napoleonic period it was deconsecrated and turned into stable until 1814

In 1871 it was rearranged by Giacomo Monaldi (1819/1905) and it became the local church of the House of Savoy

COUNTER FAÇADE
Organ of the eighteenth century

VAULT
“Glory of the Blessed Ludovica, Amedeo, Umberto, Bonifacio and Margherita of Savoy House” by the Sienese Cesare Maccari (1840/1919)

ON THE RIGHT - ALTAR OF St. FRANCIS DE SALES
“S. Francis de Sales” about 1665 maybe by Carlo Cesi (1626/86)
St. Francis de Sales was canonized in this church in 1665

MAIN ALTAR
“Deposition of Christ in the shroud with saints and blessed of the Savoy family” 1682 by Antonio Gherardi (1638/1702)

“Painted according to a compositional scheme drawn up by the sixteenth-century Venetian painting, whose characters formed a source of reflection and conceptual training for the artist from Rieti, the work presents a celebration of the relic that gives the name to the church, and a parade of the most significant religious figures of the house of Savoy” (Stefano Petrocchi)

On the pediment sculpture group “Eternal Father” with a copy of the Holy Shroud by Pietro Mentinovese pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Holy Shroud was in possession of the Savoy family since 1452. The copy shown here was donated to Alexander VII Chigi (1655/67)
Frescoes on the walls “Sermon of St. Anselm of Canterbury” and “Meeting of St. Francis de Sales and Blessed John Juvenal Ancina” 1871/73 by Cesare Maccari

ON THE LEFT - ALTAR OF BLESSED AMADEUS OF SAVOY
“Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy” about 1680 by Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (1609/81)

SACRISTY
“Crucifixion” and “Nativity” by Lazzaro Baldi (about 1624/1703)