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The Churches of Rome

San Girolamo della Carità

First established as a Franciscan hospice with chapel in 1419 and rebuilt after a 1631 fire, San Girolamo della Carità is now administered by Opus Dei clergy as a dependency of San Lorenzo in Damaso. St. Philip Neri lived and ministered on this site for years before founding the Oratory.

Highlights

  • A copy of Domenichino’s Last Communion of St. Jerome, the original now in the Vatican Pinacoteca
  • The Ecstasy of St. Philip Neri chapel, designed by Filippo Juvarra with reliefs by Pierre Le Gros the Younger
  • A wooden coffered ceiling
  • Associations with St. Jerome, St. Paula, and St. Philip Neri

Address

Via di Monserrato 62/A, 00186 Roma

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