The Ss. Stimmate di San Francesco ("Church of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis") is a church in central

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, in the Rione Pigna, sited where previously there was a church called Ss. Quaranta Martiri de Calcarario. It is located on via dei Cestari, near the corner with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and across the street and diagonal from the

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. The first church in this location was consecrated in 1297. In 1597, the land was given by

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to the ''Confraternita delle Ss.Stimmate''; the construction of a new building was completed in 1714, from designs by

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Art and architecture

During the papacy of

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, the facade was begun by Antonio Canevari, in a plan recalling

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's style. In the center niche formed by the interrupted tympanum is a statue of St. Francis receiving the

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as he looks heavenward. The first chapel to the right has a ''Flagellation'' by

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, flanking paintings by Domenico Muratori with a cupola frescoed by

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. The second chapel has a painting of the

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by Sebastiano Conca and a ''St Michael'', a copy of the mosaic of St. Peters completed by

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. The third chapel on the right has a canvas depicting ''St. Joseph Calasanzio'' by

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. The main altarpiece is a ''Saint Francis with stigmata'' (1719) by

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. The nave ceiling has a ''Glory of St. Francis'' by

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. In the third chapel the left has an altarpiece depicting the ''Ss. Quaranta Martiri'' ( Holy Forty martyrs) by

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, author of another ''St. Francis with Stigmata'' in the Hall of Stimmate. The sacristy ceiling was frescoed by Girolamo Pesce.Guida metodica di Roma e suoi contorni
by Giuseppe Melchiorri, Rome (1836); page 424.

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