Church of Saint Jerome of Charity

A small church but rich in history. The church was the first residence and will remain so until the old age of San Filippo Neri. Founded, according to legend, in the 4th century on the area of ​​the house that had hosted San Girolamo, the church was rebuilt around 1654 by Domenico Castelli. San Filippo Neri lived in the adjacent convent between 1551 and 1583. He was the first to found the oratory. The painter Francesco Salviati was buried there. In this church the saint has performed his miracles and in certain periods or on the occasion of his feast it is possible to visit his house and his rooms where his bed is still there. The church has undergone some changes over time, the baroque altar, but an essential clean baroque but what is striking is its wooden ceiling, perhaps one of the most beautiful in Rome. On the sides of the altar there are two chapels in the one on the right there is a fine workmanship canvas, on the left you will find the Antamoro chapel (1708), the only Roman work by Filippo Juvarra, adorned with the marble statue of San Filippo Neri by Pierre Legros . The church has a chapel, however, which is a jewel, the first chapel on the right is the Spada Chapel, the work of Virgilio Spada, created with the collaboration of Francesco Borromini, decorated with a rich covering of jasper and precious marbles, which simulate a funeral apparatus , with ovals with busts of ancestors and a bronze wreath that frames a precious 15th century painting. On the main altar, designed by Carlo Rainaldi, there is a copy of Domenichino's Last Communion of San Girolamo, now in the Vatican Pinacoteca, based on the example of the famous painting by Agostino Carracci.

Baroque scenographic masterpiece with the famous Spada Chapel - the work of Borromibi - and the refined and innovative Antamoro Chapel, with the effigy of San Filippo Neri, the work of the sculptor PierLegros, the only Roman architecture of the great Messina artist Filippo Juvarra ...