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4 unusual facts about Santa Prassede


Cardinals created by Urban V

Marco da Viterbo, O.F.M., master general of the Order of Friars Minor – cardinal-priest of Santa Prassede (received the title on 14 December 1367), † 4 September 1369.

Francesco Foggia

His wife Eugenia died on 12 March 1683; Foggia died on 8 January 1688 and was buried in the church of Santa Prassede in Rome.

Santa Prassede

The church provided the inspiration for Robert Browning's poem "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church."

Pope Paschal, who reigned 817-824, was at the forefront of the Carolingian Renaissance started and advocated by the emperor Charlemagne.


Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum

Their relics later suffered various vicissitudes: some were transferred to the churches of Sant'Adriano al Foro and Santa Prassede, in Rome, and part of these relics were sent to Eginhard, biographer of Charlemagne, who lodged them in the monastery of Seligenstadt.


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