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{{Short description|Roman Catholic basilica, a landmark of Rome, Italy}}
{{Infobox church
| name                   = Sant'Eustachio
| fullname               = Basilica of Saint Eustace
| native_name            = Basilica di Sant'Eustachio
| native_name_lang       = it
| image                  = Basilique Sant'Eustachio.JPG
| caption                = View of the Basilica Sant'Eustachio
| coordinates            = {{Coord|41.8987|12.4757|display=it|region:IT-RM_type:landmark_source:dewiki|format=dms}}
|image_size=270
|mapframe-frame-width=270
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|mapframe-zoom=13
|mapframe-marker=religious-christian
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| location               = Via di Sant'Eustachio, [[Rome]]
| country                = Italy
| language(s)            =Italian
| denomination           = [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]
| status                 = [[Minor basilica]], [[titular church]]
| founded date           = by the 8th century AD
| dedication             = [[Saint Eustace]]
| architectural type     = [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]], [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]]
| diocese                = [[Diocese of Rome|Rome]] }}
 
'''Sant'Eustachio''' ({{IPA|it|santeuˈstaːkjo|}}) is a Roman Catholic [[titular church]] and [[minor basilica]] in Rome, named for the martyr [[Saint Eustace]]. It is located on Via di Sant'Eustachio in the [[Sant'Eustachio (rione of Rome)|rione Sant'Eustachio]], a block west of the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] and via della Rotonda, and a block east of [[Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza]] and the Via della Dogana Vecchia.

==History==
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[[File:The Basilica of San Eustachio viewed from Via della Palombella.jpg|thumb|View of the basilica from via della Palombella]]
A church at the site was founded by the 8th century. The church was recorded as a ''diaconia'' (a centre for helping the poor and the sick) at the end of the pontificate of [[Pope Gregory II]] (715-731). It is mentioned in some documents dating from the 10th and 11th centuries, where this church is called ''in platana'' (between the [[Platanus|plane trees]]) referring to the tree planted in the garden of the martyr Eustace. However, tradition holds that the emperor [[Constantine I]] had previously built an [[oratory (worship)|oratory]] here. This church was called "ad Pantheon in regione nona e iuxta templum Agrippae" (at the Pantheon in the ninth ''rione'' and next to the temple of Agrippa").

The church was restored and had a new [[campanile]] added at the end of the 12th century during the pontificate of [[Celestine III]] (1191–1198), who also deposited the putative relics of Eustace and his family in the church.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7uZaAAAAcAAJ Accurata, E Succinta Descrizione Topografica, E Istorica Di Roma], Volume 1, by Ridolfino Venturini, published by Carlo Barbellieni, Rome (1768); page 250.</ref><ref>Eustace's wife was Theopista, and his two sons Agapius and Theopistus.</ref> In the 16th century, it was a favored praying-place for St [[Philip Neri]]. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was almost completely rebuilt, with only the campanile remaining from the old structure. The new design, in the Roman [[Italian Baroque architecture|Baroque]] style, was produced by several architects : Cesare Corvara and Giovanni Battista Contini (1641–1723), who added chapels and the [[portico]], Antonio Canevari (1681–1750), [[Nicola Salvi]] (1697–1751) and finally, from 1728, Giovanni Domenico Navone. The new high altar, in bronze and [[polychrome]] marble, was added by Nicola Salvi in 1739 and in 1749 [[Ferdinando Fuga]] put a [[baldachin]] over it. The choir and the sacristy were designed by Canevari and built by Giovanni Moscati.

==Façade==
[[File:Mac9011.JPG|thumb|Campanile and the pediment with a deer head with a cross between the antlers]]
The façade was built under the direction of Cesare Corvara († 1703) with the collaboration of other architects. It consists of two sections, with the upper section standing back. The lower part is marked with four [[pilaster]]s and two columns, all with [[Ionic order|Ionic]] [[Capital (architecture)|capitals]] with in the middle of each capital a small head of a deer. The spirals of the [[volute]]s are connected by a small [[laurel wreath]]. On the right side of the facade a plaque was placed in memory of the flood of the [[Tiber River]] in 1495, whose waters reached up to the basilica.

The top section is divided by four pilasters with on each side a large volute. In the middle is a large window with an [[arcuated]] cornice, flanked on each side by a niche adorned with shells. On top is a triangular [[pediment]] with in its middle a [[Oculus (architecture)|circular window]] surrounded with palm branches and surmounted by a crown. On top of the pediment stands a deer head with a cross between the antlers (done by the sculptor Paolo Morelli († 1719), in reference to the legend of Saint Eustace.

An iron gate, made by Gian Battista Contini, closes off the porch.

The square [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] [[campanile]] is situated on the back of the church at its left side. Construction was started in 1196 under the pontificate of Pope Celestine III. The top part can be dated back to the end of the 12th century, while the base is somewhat older and can be dated at ca. 1090.

==Interior==
The interior has a [[Cathedral diagram|cruciform architectural plan]] and consists of a single [[nave]]. Its construction was carried out in mature [[Baroque architecture|Baroque style]] under the supervision of the architects [[Cesare Corvara]] and [[Antonio Canevari]]. The nave is marked on each side by three pilasters resting on a broad base. The pilasters are decked with [[Fluting (architecture)|fluted]] white marble and surmounted by [[Capital (architecture)|composite capitals]].
[[File:Sant'Eustachio (Rome) - Interior.jpg|thumb|The main altar]]
The [[rib vault]] is stuccoed with flowers and leaves. The crossing is covered with a dome with a representation of the [[Holy Spirit]] in its middle.

The main altar was commissioned by Cardinal [[Neri Maria Corsini|Neri Corsini]] and designed by the architect Nicola Salvi. He made it into an elegant and refined synthesis of marble and gilded metal. The top of the altar rests on an urn in [[Porphyry (geology)|porphyry]] [[rosso antico]], the costly stone of the ancients, that contains the putative relics of Saint Eustace. The altarpiece was painted in 1727 by [[Francesco Ferdinandi]] (1679–1740), also named "l'Imperiali". It represents the martyrdom of Saint Eustace and his family who were roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox, in the year AD 118. The gilded wooden [[baldachin]] (circa 1746) over the main altar is attributed to Ferdinando Fuga (1699–1781).

The rear of the church is almost completely covered with the organ, made by Johann Conrad Werle in 1767. The gilded balustrade and the wooden front of the organ were executed in [[Rococo]] style by Bernardino Mammucari, Francesco Michetti and Carlo Pacilli. Above the organ stands a glass window representing "the [[Mary Magdalene|Penitent Magdalene]]", realized in the last decade of the 19th century by Gabriel and Louis Gesta di Tolosa.

The [[pulpit]] was executed in polychrome marble and dates from 1937 to commemorate Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) who as Cardinal Giacoma della Chiesa frequently preached in this church. His mother, Marquesa della Chiesa lived in the apartments across the street from the church.

==Right side==
[[File:San Eustachio 012.JPG|thumb|"The Annunciation" by Ottavio Lioni]]
* The '''Chapel of the [[Holy Family]]''' dates from 1854. The altarpiece by [[Pietro Gagliardi]] (1809–1890) represent the Holy Family in Jerusalem. On the right wall is a white marble funeral monument with the bust of Luigi Greppi († 1673), an illustrious member of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament. On the left side of the altar stands a small statue of Saint [[Raymond Nonnatus]], who, according to his [[hagiography]], was nominated Cardinal-Deacon of Sant' Eustachio by pope [[Gregory IX]] in 1239, but died en route to Rome.
* The '''Chapel of the [[Annunciation]]''' : its decoration was finished in 1874. Above the 17th-century altar stand two columns of coralline [[breccia]] that support a broken pediment with a bass-relief in stucco representing the Virgin and Child. The altarpiece by [[Ottavio Leoni]] (or Lioni) (1578–1630) represents the Annunciation.
* The '''Chapel of the [[Sacred Heart]]''' was restored between 1934 and 1937 by Corrado Mezzana (1890–1952), who also added the altarpiece representing the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the left wall, the painting "The Last Supper" and on the right wall the painting "Christ on the Cross and [[Saint Longinus]] piercing his Heart".
* The '''right transept''' contains the paintings made by [[Jacopo Zoboli]] (1681–1767) in 1729. On the left wall hangs the large painting of "[[Saint Jerome]]" and in front "The meeting between the Holy Virgin and Elisabeth". The large wooden [[confessional]]s were made by Corrado Mezzana.

==Left side==
[[File:San Eustachio 010.JPG|thumb|upright|"Saint Julian the Hospitaler" by [[Biagio Puccini]]]]
* ''' [[Baptistery]]''' lies next to the entrance of the church. The glass window represents "The Baptism of Jesus". The baptismal font dates from the 16th century.
* The '''Chapel of [[Saint Julian the Hospitaller]]''' was renovated from 1706. The altarpiece by [[Biagio Puccini]] (1675–1721) shows the saint curing a leper and welcoming an old pilgrim. The fresco on the ceiling represents "The Eternal Father"
* The''' Chapel of the [[Archangel Michael]]''' is the largest chapel of this church. It was finished between 1716 and 1719 by [[Alessandro Speroni]]. The altarpiece by [[Giovanni Bigatti]] (1774–1817) is a dramatic rendering of the ''Archangel Michael triumphing over Satan''. Next to the altar hang two paintings : ''St [[Raymond Nonnatus]]'' and ''St [[Frances of Rome]]''. On the left wall is the funeral monument of Teresa Tognoli Canale (1807) and on the right wall the funeral monument by [[Lorenzo Ottoni]] (1658–1736) of Silvio Cavalleri († 1717), private secretary to the popes [[Pope Innocent XII|Innocent XII]] and [[Pope Clement XI|Clement XI]].
* The '''Chapel of the [[Immaculate Heart of Mary]]''' was renovated from 1771 on by the architect [[Melchiorre Passalacqua]] and around 1800 by the sculptor Agostino Penna. Next to the altar stand two marble columns in [[Verd antique|"verde antico"]] that support a [[Tympanum (architecture)|tympanum]] with two angels in stucco. The oval painting of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a copy made in 1848 from the original painting by [[Giovanni Battista Casanova]]. On the left wall hangs a painting by [[Étienne de La Vallée Poussin]] (1774) representing "The Flight to Egypt". The painting on the right is "The Holy Family" (1774) by [[Tommaso Conca]] († 1815). The fresco on the ceiling renders "The Annunciation". At the altar of the left transept there is the altarpiece ''Incontro tra la Santa Vergine e Elisabetta'' (1727) by [[Jacopo Zoboli]].


* The '''left transept''' contains the statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (second half of the 20th century).
* The '''Chapel of the Crucifix''' contains the tomb of don [[Pirro Scavizzi]] (1884–1964), the parish priest of this church between 1919 and 1932, whose [[beatification]] is under consideration.

==List of titulars (cardinal deacons)==
The following were Cardinal Deacons of S. Eustachio:<ref>Rudolf Hüls, ''Kardinäle, Klerus und Kirchen Roms: 1049-1130'' (Tübingen 1977), pp. 226–227.</ref><ref>Johannes Matthias Brixius, ''Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums, von 1130 – 1181'' (Berlin: R. Trenkel 1912), p. 141 (1121–1173).</ref><ref>David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d1e03.html Sant’Eustachio] (1198–2016). Retrieved: 2016-03-13.</ref><ref>Conradus Eubel, ''Hierarchia catholica medii aevi'' I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913), pp. 49–50 (1198–1431).</ref><ref>Conradus Eubel, ''Hierarchia catholica medii aevi'' II, editio altera (Monasterii 1914), p. 66 (1408–1503).</ref><ref>Guilelmus van Gulik and Conradus Eubel, ''Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi'' III, editio altera (Monasterii 1923), p. 73 (1503–1595).</ref>
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* ? Gregorio (1088–1099)<ref>Unknown to Hüls, pp. 226–227.</ref>
* Gregorio, [[Order of Saint Benedict|OSB]] (←1118–1137)<ref>Rudolf Hüls, ''Kardinäle, Klerus und Kirchen Roms: 1049–1130 ''(Tübingen 1977), pp. 226–227.</ref>
* ? Gaymer (1130 – before 1134)<ref>Unknown to Hüls, pp. 226–227.</ref>
* ? Stefano (circa 1134–?)<ref>Unknown to Hüls, pp. 226–227.</ref>
* Vassalo (1134–1142)
* Astaldo degli Astalli (1143–1151)
* Ildebrando Grassi, [[Canonico Regolare]] (1152–1157)
* [[Guido di Crema]] (1155 o 1157–1158)
* [[Pietro di Miso]] (1158–1165?)
* Ugo Ricasoli (1163? – circa 1182)
** Stefano (1172–1173), [[pseudocardinal (Catholicism)|pseudocardinal]] of [[Antipope]] [[Antipope Callixtus III|Callixtus III]]
* Gianfelice (1188–1189)
* [[Pope Gregory IX|Ugolino dei Conti di Segni]] (1198–1206)
* Aldobrandino Gaetani (o Ildebrando) (1216–1219)
* [[Pope Alexander IV|Rinaldo dei Signori di Ienne]] (1227–1234)
* [[Robert Somercote]] (1231 or 1239–1251)
* ''The claim that [[Raymond Nonnatus|Ramón Nonnato]] held this titular church ca. 1240 has been disproved.''<ref>Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, ''Cardinali di Curia e "familae" cardinalizia dal 1227 al 1254''  II (Padova 1972), pp. 534–535.</ref>
* [[Guglielmo Fieschi]] (1244–1256)
* [[Uberto Coconati]] (1261–1276)
* [[Giordano Orsini (died 1287)|Giordano Orsini]] (1278–1287)
* [[Pietro Colonna (cardinal)|Pietro Colonna]] (1288–1297)
* [[Riccardo Petroni]] (1298–1314)
* [[Arnaud de Via]] (1317–1335), nephew of Pope [[John XXII]]
** [[Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)|Giovanni Visconti]] (1329), pseudocardinal of [[Antipope Nicholas V]]
* Bernard de la Tour (1342–1361)
* [[Pierre Flandrin]] (1371–1381)
* [[Francesco Renzio]] (1381–1390)
* [[Antipope John XXIII|Baldassare Cossa]] (1402–1410)
** [[Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz]] (1408–1418), pseudocardinal of [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] (1419–1423)
** Giacomo Isolani (1413–1417), pseudocardinal of Antipope John XXIII (1417-1420?)
* Vacant (1423–1439)
* [[Alberto Alberti (cardinal)|Alberto Alberti]] (1439–1445)
** [[Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña]] (or Acuña de Carrillo) (1440), pseudocardinal of [[Antipope Felix V]], declined the appointment
* [[Giacomo del Portogallo]] (1456–1459)
* [[Pope Pius III|Francesco Nanni-Todeschini-Piccolomini]] (1460–1503)
* [[Pope Paul III|Alessandro Farnese]] (1503–1519); in commendam (1519–1534)
* [[Paolo Emilio Cesi]] (1534–1537)
* [[Agostino Trivulzio]] (1537)
* [[Cristoforo Giacobazzi]] (1537–1540)
* [[Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora]] (1540–1552)
* [[Niccolò Caetani]] (1552–1585)
* [[Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Ferdinando de' Medici]] (1585–1587)
* [[Filippo Guastavillani]] (1587)
* [[Alessandro Damasceni Peretti]] (1587–1589)
* [[Girolamo Mattei]] (1589–1592)
* [[Guido Pepoli]] (1592–1595)
* [[Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)|Odoardo Farnese]] (1595–1617)
* [[Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto]] (1617–1621)
* [[Alessandro d'Este]] (1621)
* [[Maurizio di Savoia]] (1621–1626)
* [[Francesco Boncompagni]] (1626–1634)
* [[Ippolito Aldobrandini (cardinal)|Ippolito Aldobrandini iuniore]] (1634–1637)
* [[Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore)]] (1638–1644)
* [[Marzio Ginetti]] (1644)
* [[Carlo de' Medici]] (1644)
* [[Girolamo Colonna]] (1644–1652)
* [[Giangiacomo Teodoro Trivulzio]] (1652–1653)
* [[Virginio Orsini]] (1653–1656)
* [[Vincenzo Costaguti]] (1656–1660)
* [[Lorenzo Raggi]] (1660–1664)
* [[Carlo Pio di Savoia|Carlo Pio di Savoia the younger]] (1664–1667)
* [[Friedrich Landgraf von Hessen-Darmstadt]] (1667–1668)
* [[Decio Azzolino|Decio Azzolino iuniore]] (1668–1681)
* [[Felice Rospigliosi]] (1682–1685)
* [[Domenico Maria Corsi]] (1686–1696)
* [[Vincenzo Grimani]] (1698–1710)
* [[Annibale Albani]] (1712–1716)
* [[Curzio Origo]] (1716–1726); titolo pro illa vice (1726–1737)
* [[Neri Maria Corsini]] (1737–1770)
* [[Giovanni Costanzio Caracciolo]] (1770–1780)
* [[Pasquale Acquaviva d'Aragona]] (1780–1788)
* [[Vincenzo Maria Altieri]] (1788–1794)
* [[Filippo Carandini]] (1794–1810)
* Vacant (1810–1816)
* [[Alessandro Lante|Alessandro Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere]] (1816–1818)
* [[Giuseppe Albani]] (1818–1828)
* Vacant (1828–1832)
* [[Ludovico Gazzoli]] (1832–1857)
* [[Teodolfo Mertel]] (1858–1881)
* [[Angelo Jacobini]] (1882–1886)
* [[Luigi Trombetta]] (1899–1900)
* Vacant (1900–1914)
* [[Michele Lega]] (1914–1924); titolo pro illa vice (1924–1926)
* [[Carlo Perosi]] (1926–1930)
* Vacant (1930–1946)
* [[Giuseppe Bruno (cardinal)|Giuseppe Bruno]] (1946–1954)
* Vacant (1954–1958)
* [[Fernando Cento]], titolo pro illa vice (1958–1965)
* [[Francis John Brennan]] (1967–1968)
* [[Giacomo Violardo]] (1969–1978)
* Vacant (1978–1991)
* [[Guido Del Mestri]] (1991–1993)
* Vacant (1993–2001)
* [[Sergio Sebastiani]] (2001–2024)
* [[Rolandas Makrickas]] (2024–)
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==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* [[Richard Krautheimer]], ''Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome (IV-IX Cent.)'' (Roma: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1937), pp.&nbsp;213–218.
* Antonio Menegaldo & Vincenzo Francia, ''Basilica di Sant' Eustachio in Campo Marzio'' (in Italian) – booklet on sale in the church
* Carla Appetiti, ''S. Eustachio'' (Roma: Edizioni "Roma", 1964).
* Pasquale Adinolfi, ''Rione Campo Marzo, Rione S. Eustachio'' (Firenze: Le Lettere, 1983) [Roma nell'età di mezzo / Pasquale Adinolfi, 4].

==See also==
* [[Pietro Gagliardi]]
* [[Ottavio Leoni]]
* [[Francesco Ferdinandi]]
* [[Jacopo Zoboli]]

==External links==
* {{cite book |first=M. |last=Lucentini |title=The Rome Guide: Step by Step through History's Greatest City|date=31 December 2012 |publisher=Interlink |isbn=978-1-62371-008-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=laMDAQAAQBAJ}}

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