Via degli Zingari/Piazza della Madonna dei Monti 3
Built in the ninth century with monastery dedicated to Serio and Baco in Calinico, maybe Calinico patriarch of Constantinople of the seventh/eighth century exiled to Rome by Justinian II. Tradition has it that Calinico died in this spot
Sergius and Bacchus were soldiers under Maximian (286/305) and, after being martyred, they became the protectors of the army. Their cult was popular and widespread, especially in the Eastern Church
The church was restored under Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) for Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who donated it with the adjoining MONASTERY to the Ruthenians monks of St. Basil
It was known as Madonna del Pascolo (Madonna of the Pasture) since 1719 when an image of “Madonna and Child” was found in the monastery
It is a copy of the “Madonna of the Pasture” appeared to some shepherds in a church Lithuania. The image was later moved in the church
The church was rebuilt in 1741 by Francesco Ferrari (active in Rome 1721/44)
It was restored in the years 1969/73 for Cardinal Joseph Slipyj, Archibishop of Lviv in Ukraine
It is the national Ukrainian church
FAÇADE
It was added in the years 1880/96 by Ettore Bonoli in so called historicist style in imitation of the sixteenth century style
Statues in the niches: on the left “Joseph Rutskyj, Archibishop of Kiev” and on the right “Card. Joseph Slipyj”
VAULT
“Madonna in Glory with Angels” 1741 by Sebastiano Ceccarini (1703/83)
NEXT TO THE ENTRANCE DOOR
“Funerary monument of the Polish painter Giulio Miszewski” 1827
ALTAR ON THE RIGHT
“St. Basil” about 1741 by Ignazio Stern (1679/1748)
MAIN ALTAR
1719 Filippo Barigioni (about 1680/1753)
Venerated image “Madonna of the Pasture” brought here from the monastery
ALTAR ON THE LEFT
“Ss. Sergius and Bacchus” about 1714 by Ignazio Stern
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