Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Magno
Historic site · Borgo, Italy
A church of the first half of the twelfth century at the top of a steep flight of steps off largo degli Alicorni, with a Romanesque bell tower and a Baroque interior. Italian Wikipedia gives it as the national church of the Frisians, today serving Rome's Dutch Catholic community and the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in St Peter's.
History
Under the Lateran Treaty of 11 February 1929, Italy recognises the Holy See's full ownership of this property (Art. 13; Annex II). Art. 15 states that the property, «benché facenti parte del territorio dello Stato italiano» — although forming part of the territory of the Italian State — enjoys the immunities that international law grants to the headquarters of the diplomatic agents of foreign States. It is on Italian soil and visitors are subject to Italian law. The Holy See's enumeration names the «Chiesa dei Ss. Michele e Magno» among the properties on the Janiculum that hold that status. Italian Wikipedia dates the consecration to 30 January 1141 and records an eighteenth-century rebuilding by Carlo Murena; its dates for that rebuilding and for the reconsecration contradict one another within a single article, so none of them is published here. The church was known in the Middle Ages as San Michele de Porticu and, from the fifteenth century, as San Michele in Borgo.
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