When we speak of the Roman churches of the Aventine, we immediately think of the church of Santa Sabina and maybe you miss the church of S. Saba, who was originally an ancient monastery, dating from the early eighth century, which, according to tradition, settled in a house that belonged to the maternal family of Pope Gregory the Great in turn built on an old Roman building, probably the barracks of the Fourth Brigade of the cohort.
The monastery was founded by Greek Basilian monks at their monastery, which gave the name of Cella Nova, in memory of Larum novum, a monastery in Jerusalem also dedicated to St. Saba, abbot of Palestine, who died in 532 and follower of the tradition of Monat Sant'Antonio Abate. It was
Eastern monks, from the community founded by St. Saba in Jerusalem and Palestine, fleeing troubled by wars, massacres and the expansion of Islamic taken possession of the site, we established a monastery that quickly gained fame and prestige. In the tenth century
The monastery was probably inhabited by Benedictine monks, who would build the first church on top of the oratorio, which went instead to house the tombs of the monks. The monastery did not undergo any substantial changes until after the Roman reconstruction took place around 1145, when the monastery was granted to the monks of Cluny by Pope Lucius II.
the beginning of the next century the building was entrusted to the Cistercians, and the Canons Regular of Hungary and finally to the Germanic College run by Jesuits, which is still in charge of the parish.
Access is through a beautiful porch on the top of a staircase.
The church has three naves, divided by 24 columns buildings belonging to the pagans, and concluded with three apses, the central nave, being twice that of the side is illuminated by a series of eight windows that open on both sides. In the apse there are, besides the episcopal chair, decorated with a large disk with mosaics cosmateschi, even the ciborium, supported by four columns of black marble with white veins, and the beautiful frescoes of 1575. There is also a kind of fourth aisle on the left side where the walls are still visible on the frescoes of the thirteenth century.
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