Girolamo Rusticucci was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop. He was personal secretary to Cardinal Michele Ghislieri, later Pope Pius V, who made Rusticucci a cardinal. He occupied numerous important positions, including papal legate to France and Spain, Camerlengo (treasurer) and Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals, and Vicar General of Rome.
Girolamo Rusticucci
Coat of arms of Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci.
The Church of Saint Susanna at the Baths of Diocletian is a Roman Catholic parish church located on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, Italy. There has been a titular church associated to its site as far back as AD 280. The current church was rebuilt from 1585 to 1603 for a monastery of Cistercian nuns founded on the site in 1587, which still exists there.
Baroque façade of Santa Susanna by Carlo Maderno (1603).
Fresco detail in Santa Susanna depicting the martyrdom of St. Felicity, by Paris Nogari.
Santa Susanna, Rome
The interior.