Sant'Agnese in Agone is a church in Rome, built after 1652 on the site where Saint Agnes was martyred in the Circus of Domitian, now the Piazza Navona in Rome, by the important Baroque architect Francesco Borromini. Under the church there are substantial remains of an ancient Roman house. Fountain of the four Rivers with Egyptian obelisk, in the middle of Piazza Navona Piazza Navona is a square in Rome, Italy. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... Saint Agnes is a virgin martyr celebrated annually by Christians with a feast on January 21. ... Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ... Fountain of the four Rivers with Egyptian obelisk, in the middle of Piazza Navona Piazza Navona is a square in Rome, Italy. ... For the Baroque style in a more general sense, see Baroque. ... Francesco Borromini (Bissone near Lugano, Switzerland, September 25, 1599 – August 3, 1667 in Rome) was a Baroque architect, and active in Rome alongside the more prolific papal architect, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. ...
Despite the curious assonance, the name of this church is unrelated to the agony of the martyr: in agone was the ancient name of piazza Navona ("piazza in agone"), and meant instead (from Greek) "in the site of the competitions", because piazza Navona was an ancient stadium on the Greek model (with one flat end) for footraces. From "in agone", the popular use and pronunciation changed the name into "Navona", but other roads around kept the original name (like the Corsia Agonale, a short road that connects with the Palazzo Madama.
Current Cardinal Deacon of the Title of Santa Agnese in Agone is Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti. The Cardinal Deacons are the lowest-ranked of the three orders of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti (born 31 July 1922 in Romagnano Sesia, Italy) is a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. ...
Nel 1874, trasferite le suore, il complesso conventuale venne inglobato nelle strutture dell'Ospedale "San Salvatore" di viale Nizza, dove ancora sono visibili sia gli ambienti monastici e sia la bella chiesa di Sant'Agnese, cappella del nosocomio fino al trasferimento dello stesso a Coppito.
In qualche misura, le Sant'Agnese dell'Ottocento e dei primi del Novecento delle classi borghesi e nobili (esclusa la nobiltà "nera" romana) si risolsero in incontri di critica e protesta di stampo anticlericale e anarchico, come provano gli scontri polemici sui numerosi giornali del tempo, espressione delle varie consorterie.
Le serve, a servizio dei nobili (ed anche trastullo per i signori), conoscevano ovviamente i segreti delle case gentilizie, che mettevano sistematicamente in piazza, a voce alta.
Sebbene sia il più basso e il meno esteso dei sette colli, al principio del VI secolo a.C. vi sorse il tempio di Giove Capitolino, in assoluto il tempio più importante dell’antica Roma.
Il nome attuale della piazza deriva, per corruzione linguistica, proprio del termine Agones, che in latino significa appunto "giochi".
La chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone sorge sul luogo in cui, secondo la tradizione, la dodicenne Agnese fu martirizzata, alla fine del III secolo durante le violente persecuzioni dell’imperatore Diocleziano.
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