Santa Susanna, Rome
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The Church of Saint Susanna at the Baths of Diocletian is a Catholic parish and Cistercian conventual church located on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, Italy. There has been a titular church associated to
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.
Pope Leo III
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Pope Leo III was bishop of Rome and leader of the Papal States from 26 December 795 to his death on 12 June 816.
Santa Susanna, Rome
…was marked with the designation ad duas domos (at the two houses). This first three-aisled basilica was almost certainly built under the pontificate of Pope Leo III (795–816). According to tradition, the structure became a church around 330, under Emperor Constantine I, when the basilicas of numerous house churches…
Mosaic at Triclinium Leoninum
Rescue of Pope Leo III by Winigis; fresco by Ignazio Danti (1580)
Detail from The Coronation of Charlemagne by Raphael (1517)