Corsican Guard
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The Corsican Guard was a military unit of the Papal States composed exclusively of Corsican mercenaries on duty in Rome, having the functions of an urban militia and guard for the Pope.
Soldier, officer and high officer of the Corsican Guard in 1656, after "La Corse militaire", by Marquis Paul D'Ornano (1904)
San Crisogono, until 1768 the national church of the Corsicans in Trastevere, Rome, burial place of several Corsican military officers
Funerary monument in San Crisogono of Pasquino Corso (d. 1532), colonel of the Corsican militia
Church of the Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome. Between this shrine and that of San Paolo alla Regola lay barracks of the Guard.
San Crisogono, Rome
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San Crisogono is a church in Rome dedicated to the martyr Saint Chrysogonus. It was one of the tituli, the first parish churches of Rome, and was probably built in the 4th century under Pope Sylvester I (314–335).
The church
Interior