San Bernardino in Panisperna or Panispermia or San Bernardino ai Monti or San Bernardino da Siena ai Monti is a small Roman Catholic church in Rome. It is found across from the church of

Sant'Agata dei Goti Sant'Agata dei Goti is a church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the martyr Agatha of Sicily. It is the ''diaconia'' assigned to Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. (It became ''pro hac vice'' title in 2021 ...

on via Panisperna in the

Rione Monti Monti is the 1st ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. I, located in Municipio I. The name literally means "mountains" in Italian and comes from the fact that the Esquiline, the Viminal Hills, and parts of the Quirinal and the Caelian H ...

. The church was built on the ruins of the monastery of Santa Veneranda. The church was consecrated in 1625. The Baroque interior is elliptical in shape, and the cupola was frescoed by Bernardino Gagliardi with a ''Glory of San Bernardino and other Franciscan Saints''. Over the door to the sacristy is a canvas by Giovanni Baglione depicting ''Saints Francis, Clare, and Agatha''. Since 2003, the church has ministered to a Chinese catholic community in Rome.

Sources

*M. Armellini, Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Roma 1891, p. 203 *Roma nell’anno MDCCCXXXVIII descritta da Antonio Nibby, Parte prima Moderna, Roma 1839, pp. 129–130 *C. Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Roma 2000, p. 47 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernardino in Panispermia Roman Catholic churches completed in 1625 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Roman Catholic churches in Rome National churches in Rome 1625 establishments in Italy Bernardino Panisperna