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Basilique Santa Maria in Aracoeli
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Fabrizio
August 13, 2012
You will be fascinated by the inside.
Lorenzo
October 6, 2019
The basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli is one of the churches of Rome and stands on the Capitoline Hill. The church, whose original name was Santa Maria in Capitolio, was part of the complex of buildings of the monastery that had settled on the Capitoline hill while the rest of the ancient Roman buildings were in ruins. On the current name, attested from 1323 (it must have entered popular use for some time), there are various hypotheses. The prevailing one traces it back to the legend, reported in the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, according to which the church would have risen where Augustus had the vision of a woman with a child in her arms and would have heard a voice saying "This is the altar of the son of God". The sibyl was asked and explained that it was Mary, the mother of Jesus. The church was and is famous for the "Holy Child", a wooden sculpture of the infant Jesus carved in the 15th century with olive wood from the Garden of Gethsemane and covered with precious ex voto. According to popular belief, it was endowed with miraculous powers and the faithful went there to ask for pardon for an evil or a misfortune. The statue, stolen in February 1994, has never been found. In its place there is now a copy, which does not lack new votive offerings.
The basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli is one of the churches of Rome and stands on the Capitoline Hill. The church, whose original name was Santa Maria in Capitolio, was part of the complex of buildings of the monastery that had settled on the Capitoline hill while the rest of the ancient Roman b…
Luca&Rita
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XIII sec. entrance 7-19
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