San Bartolomeo all'Isola
| Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola Basilica S. Bartholomaei in Insula |
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Façade of San Bartolomeo all'Isola on the Tiber Island
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| Basic information | |
| Location |  Rome, Italy |
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| Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Oriental rite |
| Year consecrated | 10th Century |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Minor basilica, Rectory church |
| Leadership | Vacant (Cardinal Francis Eugene George, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, who had been its Cardinal-Priest since 1998, died on Friday, April 17, 2015) |
| Website | www |
| Architectural description | |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Direction of façade | Northwest |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 45 metres (148 ft) |
| Width | 22 metres (72 ft) |
| Width (nave) | 12 metres (39 ft) |
The Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island (Italian: Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola , Latin: Basilica S. Bartholomaei in Insula) is a titular minor basilica, located in Rome, Italy. It was founded at the end of the 10th century by Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor. It contains the relics of St. Bartholomew the Apostle,[1] and is located on Tiber Island, on the site of the former temple of Aesculapius, which had cleansed the island of its former ill-repute among the Romans and established its reputation as a hospital, continued under Christian auspices today.
The most recent Cardinal priest of the Titulus S. Bartholomaei in Insula was Cardinal Francis George, the Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, who died on Friday, April 17, 2015.
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History
In Roman times, the Temple of Aesculapius stood on the site of the modern church. The entire Isola Tiberina had actually been covered in marble in an effort to make the island look like a ship. The prow can still be seen today.[2]
Emperor Otto built this church, which was initially dedicated to his friend Adalbert of Prague. It was renovated by Pope Paschal II in 1113 and again in 1180, after its rededication upon the arrival of the relics of the apostle Bartholomew. The relics were sent to Rome from Benevento, where they had arrived from Armenia in 809. The relics are located within an ancient Roman porphyry bathtub with lions' heads, under the main altar. The marble wellhead bears the figures of the Savior, Adalbert and Bartholomew and Otto III.
The church was badly damaged by a flood in 1557 and was reconstructed, with its present Baroque façade, in 1624, to designs of Orazio Torriani. Further restorations were undertaken in 1852. The interior of the church preserves fourteen ancient Roman columns and two lion supports that date from the earliest reconstruction of the basilica.
The inscriptions found in S. Bartolomeo, a valuable source illustrating the history of the Basilica, have been collected and published by Vincenzo Forcella.[3]
In 2000, San Bartolomeo was dedicated by Pope John Paul II to the memory of the new martyrs of the 20th and 21st century.
Exterior
In the center of the piazzetta before the church is a four-sided guglia with saints in niches by the sculptor Ignazio Jacometti, erected here in 1869.
The 12th-century tower near the church, the Torre dei Caetani, is all that remains of the medieval castello erected on the island by the Pierleoni.
Interior
San Bartolomeo houses the memorial to new martyrs of the 20th and 21st century, which was dedicated by Pope John Paul II in 2000. This memorial is taken care of by the Community of Sant'Egidio, who also painted the icon on the main altar. One of the relics that are kept as part of the memorial is the piece of rock that was used in 1984 to kill Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko.[4]
List of Cardinal priests
San Bartolomeo all'Isola was established as a titulus (Titulus S. Bartholomaei in Insula) of a Cardinal Priest by Pope Leo X on 6 July 1517.[5] The most recent holder of the title was Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago (died 17 April 2015).
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- Aegidius de Viterbo (1517)
- Domenico Giacobazzi (1517–1519)
- vacant (1519–1533)
- Jean Le Veneur (1533–1543)
- Jacques d'Annebaut (1547–1548)
- Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo (1551–1555)
- Fulvio Giulio della Corgna (1555–1557)
- vacant (1557–1562)
- Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1562–1568)
- Diego de Espinosa (1568)
- Giulio Antonio Santorio (1570–1595)
- Francesco Maria Tarugi (1596–1602)
- Filippo Spinelli (1604–1608)
- Michelangelo Tonti (1608–1621)
- Gabriel Trejo y Paniagua (1621–1630)
- Agostino Spinola Basadone (1631–1649)
- vacant (1649–1654)
- Ottavio Acquaviva d'Aragona the Younger (1654–1658)
- vacant (1658–1670)
- Francesco Nerli the Elder (1670)
- Johann Eberhard Graf Neidhardt (1672–1679)
- vacant (1679–1696)
- Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini (1696–1699)
- Niccolò Radulovich (1700–1702)
- vacant (1702–1707)
- Francesco Acquaviva (1707–1709)
- vacant (1709–1721)
- Alvaro Cienfuegos (1721–1739)
- vacant (1739–1782)
- József Batthyány (1782–1799)
- vacant (1799–1803)
- Pietro Francesco Galeffi (1803–1820)
- Bonaventura Gazzola (1824–1832)
- Engelbert Sterckx (1838–1867)
- vacant (1867–1874)
- János Simor (1874–1891)
- Mario Mocenni (1893–1894)
- Egidio Mauri (1894–1895)
- Johann Evangelist Haller (1896–1900)
- Bartolomeo Bacilieri (1901–1923)
- Enrico Gasparri (1925–1933)
- Carlo Salotti (1936–1939)
- Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian (1946–1970)
- Aníbal Muñoz Duque (1973–1987)
- Mario Revollo Bravo (1988–1995)
- Francis Eugene George (1998–2015)
- vacant (since 2015)
References
- ↑ S. Prete, "Reliquie e culto di S. Bartolomeo ap. dal Medio Oriente a Roma all'Isola Tiberina", Studi e Ricerche sull'Oriente Cristiano, Rome 5.3 (1982:173-181)
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- ↑ V. Forcella, Inscrizioni delle chese e d' altre edifici di Roma, dal secolo XI fino al secolo XVI Volume IV (Roma: Fratelli Bencini, 1874), pp. 527-540.
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- ↑ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: San Bartolomeo all'Isola. Retrieved: 03/09/2016.
- Touring Club Italiano (TCI), 1965. Roma e dintorni
External links
Further reading
- Richiello, Maria. S. Bartolomeo all'Isola: storia e restauro (Rome) 2001.
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