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Oratorio di Sant'Andrea a Ponte Milvio

Historic site · Flaminio, Italy

A rectangular 15th-century oratory on via Flaminia, the road that runs on to ponte Milvio; it is also called Sant'Andrea a Ponte Molle, and its own article places it in the quartiere Flaminio. The Piccolomini arms are over the door. A small cemetery for foreigners who died on pilgrimage surrounds it, and some wall tablets and an ossuary survive, the ossuary's entrance in the middle of the little garden. It is today a subsidiary place of worship of the parish of Santa Croce a via Flaminia. No source states its opening hours, so none are given here.

History

The oratory was built beside an aedicule put up by Pius II to commemorate 11 April 1462, when the pope went out to meet Cardinal Bessarione carrying the head of the apostle Andrew, a relic saved by Thomas Palaiologos, despot of Patras, brought to Ancona, then overland to Narni and down the Tiber. Pius V granted the oratory to the archconfraternity of the Trinità dei Pellegrini in 1566. The aedicule, with its travertine base, four alabaster colonnettes with Ionic capitals and Attic bases and a small dome, is attributed to Francesco del Borgo; Manodori gives the statue of St Andrew beneath it to Paolo Taccone in 1463, while Armellini gives it to Varrone and Niccolò of Florence, pupils of Filarete.

Visit

Via Flaminia, Roma RM

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