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San Francesco Saverio, Rimini

Coordinates: 44°03′45″N 12°34′02″E / 44.0624°N 12.5672°E / 44.0624; 12.5672
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The facade

San Francesco Saverio also known as the Church of the Suffragio is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church located in Piazza Ferrari #12 in Rimini, Italy. The church rises adjacent to the former convent of the Jesuits (now a civic museum).

History

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The church was commissioned by the Jesuit order and built in 1721. The Jesuits previously had been housed in a site in Santa Maria a Mare. The design had been attributed to either Giovanni Francesco Buonamici or Francesco Garampi.[1][2]

The layout is modelled on the Gesù church in Rome. Adjacent to the church was once the Jesuit convent, which was for years a hospital, and now serves as Civic Museum. The facade remains incomplete in brick, but the interior is richly decorated, despite the suppression of the Jesuits by papal bull in 1773.[3]

The adjacent convent once was a hospital, then a museum.[4]

Interior decoration

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St Martin Bishop with St John the Baptist and the Virgin in Glory by Frangipane
Crucified Jesuit Martyrs in Japan by Cagnacci
St Francis Borgia in Adoration of the Virgin by Rotari

An inventory in 1864 (also 1901) cited the following works in the church:[5]

References

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  1. ^ Guida del forestiere nella città di Rimini, by Luigi Tonini, 1864, page 23.
  2. ^ La patria; geografia dell' Italia: pte. 2. Provincie di Ravenna, Ferrara, Forli', Luigi Borsari, 1901, page 279 and 281.
  3. ^ Rimini Turismo, entry.
  4. ^ "Chiesa del Suffragio". Rimini turismo. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  5. ^ Tonini (1864) and Borsari (1901).
  6. ^ Still in situ, Rimini Turismo
  7. ^ Still in situ, Rimini Turismo
  8. ^ Still in situ, Rimini Turismo
  9. ^ Still in church, Rimini Turismo

44°03′45″N 12°34′02″E / 44.0624°N 12.5672°E / 44.0624; 12.5672