Basilica of San Camillo de Lellis - Roma, Italy - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

The church was built at the behest of Pope Pius X based on a design by the architect Tullio Passarelli. Construction began in 1906, and the first stone was laid by Cardinal Antonio Agliardi. Consecrated church and erected parish in 1910, it was entrusted to the regular clergy Ministers of the Sick, the order founded by Camillo de Lellis. In 1965, Pope Paul VI raised the church to the dignity of a minor basilica and at the same time created the cardinal title of San Camillo de Lellis in the Orti Sallustiani.

The basilica is in neo-Romanesque style with Gothic influences, with outside walls facing outside in red brick (with decorative stone elements) and inside integrally in travertine blocks. The plan is a Latin cross, with a transept not protruding from the aisles.

The façade has salients and has two orders separated horizontally by a loggia consisting of round arches resting on small columns, and is characterized by jutting spurs. At the end of the wide entrance staircase there are three entrance portals, each adorned with a lunette with bas-relief: the central represents Christ presents St. Camillus to the sick, those on the sides Christ among the children and The forgiveness of the adulterous; in the upper part of the main façade there is a large circular rose window. Above the side portal of the left side, along via Sallustiana, there is a bas-relief with Jesus the Good Shepherd, dated 1907. Beside the apse rises the bell tower with a quadrangular plan, ending with a high pyramidal spire, whose cell opens outwards with a three-light window on each side; at the top, it reaches 30 meters in height.

Inside, the hall consists of three naves divided by round arches resting on pillars with sculpted capitals, and covered with cross vaults. Beyond the transept, the main nave ends with a semicircular apse, in which five windows open on which are depicted Christ and the four evangelists; above the high altar, in a niche, is the statue of San Camillo, by Alberto Galli from 1911. Of the same sculptor is the bas-relief in the lunette of the door leading to the sacristy, which depicts Pius X observing the model of the church. On the sides of the central apse there are two smaller ones used as side chapels.

Opening hours: Weekdays 8:30 to 11:45 and 17:00 to 18:45; Sundays 8:30 to 13:00, 18:00 to 20:00.

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