Historic Religious Building

CHIESA DI SANTA BIBIANA

Santa Bibiana is a small church in Rome, devoted to St Bibiana. It was initially built by Pope Simplicius, and consecrated in 467. The church houses a statue of the titular saint, designed by Bernini (1626). The bodies of St Bibiana (Viviana or Vibiana), her mother Dafrosa and her sister Demetria where discovered inside a 3rd century sarcophagus, and now rest inside an alabaster urn under the major altar.

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Architecture sight in Roma - Colle Esquilino / Collis Esquilinus, Italy

Via Giovanni Giolitti 154
00185 Roma - Colle Esquilino / Collis Esquilinus · Esquilino
District: Colli est , Italy Route to CHIESA DI SANTA BIBIANA