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Sant Agnese in Agone Church Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n Sant’Agnese in Agone Church – Piazza Navona, Rome<\/p>\n Sant’ Agnese in Agone Church is found opposite to the Piazza Navona fountain. Four<\/p>\n different architects put their hands on it to make it look the way we see the church<\/p>\n today. In 1652, Pope Innocent 10th\u00a0authorized Girolamo Rainaldi to start a project for<\/p>\n the church. Starting in 1653 the famous architect Borromini designed the fa\u00e7ade,<\/p>\n which were adorned with columns and the two bell towers and finally Carlo Rainaldi,<\/p>\n Girolamo Rainaldis son, gave the final touch to it! Later, Bernini was asked to take over and give his magic touch to the church.<\/p>\n The interior of the church is attributed to Bernini\u2019s students; it has many wonderful<\/p>\n gold bladed statues, gilded stucco, frescoes, and marble altarpieces.<\/p>\n The name \u201cin agone\u201d comes from Piazza Navona which was named like this originally<\/p>\n referring to the games it used to hold. The church is built on the spot where Saint<\/strong><\/p>\n Agnes<\/strong> was killed. The story goes as the following: Agnes was a very young beautiful<\/p>\n 13 year old roman girl from a noble family. Even though her parents were pagan, she<\/p>\n had a Greek Christian slave as a nanny. She refused Procop, the Govenors son, who<\/p>\n had tried to win her over with rich gifts and wanted her to marry her. Agnes kept on<\/p>\n saying \u201cJesus is my only spouse\u201d. He got very angry and accused Agnes of being a<\/p>\n Christian. Those days Christians were prosecuted and he was sentenced to death by<\/p>\n being burnt at the stake but the wood that was supposed to burn her would not ignite,<\/p>\n so a soldier simply cut off her head.<\/p>\n Thanks to the connections they had to Pope Innocent 10th, which was a family<\/p>\n member, the Pamphili family, who lived in the building next door, had an opening<\/p>\n through their building that would have a direct view inside the church, so it was<\/p>\n possible for them to take part in religious services without having to leave their house.<\/p>\n The church was their family chapel!<\/p>\n [\/tab]<\/p>\n [tab name=”Maps”] [map id=”117″] [\/tab]<\/p>\n [tab name=”Information”]Opening hours:<\/strong><\/p>\n Weekdays: 9.30 AM -12.30 PM and 3.30 PM -7 PM. Sunday and holidays: 10.00 AM<\/p>\n -1.00 PM and 4.00 PM \u2013 7.00 PM. Closed on Mondays.<\/p>\n Phone number: +39 06 6819 2134<\/p>\n Address: Via di Santa Maria dell’Anima, 30\/A, 00186 Rome, Italy<\/p>\n [\/tab]<\/p>\n [tab name=”Tips”]Mass at Sant\u2019Agnese in Agone Church<\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to attend Mass at the Sant’ Agnese in Agone Church, you can do so at<\/p>\n 12.15 PM and 7.00 every Sunday and holidays.<\/p>\n [\/tab]<\/p>\n [end_tabset]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [tab name=”Description”] Sant Agnese in Agone Church Rome Sant’Agnese in Agone Church – Piazza…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,35],"tags":[84,104],"class_list":["post-13217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions-in-rome","category-rome-italy","tag-attractions-in-rome","tag-churches-in-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13218,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions\/13218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}