The Catholic Traveler

The Churches of Rome

Santa Caterina da Siena

Founded in 1519 out of a mutual-aid society for Sienese people living in Rome, Santa Caterina da Siena still displays flags representing each of Siena’s seventeen contrade. The present church dates to a rebuilding campaign of 1766–1775 by the architect Paolo Posi, undertaken after Tiber flood damage.

  • Girolamo Genga’s Resurrection
  • Side-chapel frescoes by Timoteo della Vite, a pupil of Raphael
  • More than sixty relics kept beneath the main altar
  • A living link to the community of Sienese expatriates in Rome