San Giovanni Evangelista is a church in
Ravenna
Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the c ...
,
Italy.
It was built in the fifth century AD by the Roman imperial princess
Galla Placidia
Galla Placidia (388–89/392–93 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was a mother, tutor, and advisor to emperor Valentinian III, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life. She was queen consort t ...
.
In the Middle Ages the
Benedictines
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, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
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annexed to it an important monastery. In the 14th century both the church and the monastery were renovated in the
Gothic style
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
* Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
** Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken ...
: of that interventio
the portal is visible today In 1747 the church was almost entirely stripped of its mosaics; the only remaining are two fragments of the original 5th-century floor, with the first recorded Christian use of hooked crosses. Other mosaic fragments found under the bombs belong to 13th-century floor an
depict the Fourth Crusade Two of the four bells dates 1208.
Heavily bombed during
World War II,
the building was later restored.
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Palaeo-Christian architecture in Ravenna
Roman Catholic churches in Ravenna
Gothic architecture in Emilia-Romagna
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