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|location=Largo San Giovanni de Matha, 91, [[Rome]]
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|dedication=[[Agatha of Sicily]]
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|architect=Giacomo Recalcati
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'''Sant'Agata in Trastevere''' is one of the [[churches of Rome]], located in the [[Trastevere|Trastevere district]], at Largo San Giovanni de Matha, 91.
The church is dedicated to the Sicilian [[St Agatha]], martyred in approximately 251, whose cult soon spread well beyond Sicily. She is one of several virgin martyrs who are commemorated by name in the [[Canon of the Mass]].<ref>V.L. Kennedy, ''The Saints of the Canon of the Mass'', Pontifico Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Città del Vaticano, 1938, p. KKK</ref> Agatha is also depicted in the famous mosaics of the church of [[Sant'Apollinare Nuovo]] in [[Ravenna]], where she appears, richly dressed, in the [[procession]] of women martyrs along the north wall.
== History and art ==
The ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'', reports that the origins of this church was a house owned by the family of [[Pope Gregory II]], [[Bishop of Rome]] from 715 to his death in 731,<ref name="ce">[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06787a.htm Mann, Horace. "Pope St. Gregory II." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 18 September 2017</ref> who at the death of the mother transformed it into a religious building, with an adjoining monastery. This would date it to the 8th century. It is mentioned in 1121 in a [[papal bull]] of [[Pope Callixtus II]].
In 1575 [[Pope Gregory XIII]] granted the church to the archconfraternity of the Dottrina Cristiana, founded in 1560 by Marco de Sadis Cusani: from the title of the church, the members of the association had the name of "Agatists". In 1725 the Agatists merged into the [[Christian Doctrine Fathers|Doctrinaries]] congregation of the Blessed [[César de Bus]].<ref>DIP, vol. III (1976), coll. 977-978, voce a cura di P. Centi.</ref>
Between 1710 and 1711, under the pontificate of [[Pope Clement XI|Clement XI]], the church was completely rebuilt by [[Giacomo Recalcati]]. On this occasion it was granted to the Oratory of the Madonna del Carmine, the polychrome wooden statue, depicting the ''Madonna del Carmine'' (''Our Lady of Mount Carmel''), popularly called the "Madonna de Noantri", protectress of the Trastevere district.
The façade of the church is in the late-baroque style. The interior has a single nave, with three chapels on each side and a barrel vault. There are preserved, among others, works by [[Girolamo Troppa]] and [[Biagio Puccini]]. Adjacent to the church are the remains of buildings from 5th century and the Middle Ages.
The church is at the center every year of the chief Trastevere popular festival, the "[[Festa de Noantri]]".
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Largo S. Giovanni de Matha - Chiesa Santa'Agata in Trastevere - panoramio.jpg|Exterior
File:S Agata in Trastevere - interno P1070199.JPG|Interior
File:S Agata in Trastevere - soffitto P1070200.JPG|Roof
File:S Agata in Trastevere - abito ex voto della madonna fiumarola P1070203.JPG|Ex-voto costume dedicated to the Madonna del Carmine, displayed at the headquarters of the Archconfraternity.
File:Madonna del Carmine Trastevere.jpg|Madonna del Carmine
</gallery>
== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* [[Christian Hülsen]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/I/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/churches/_Texts/Huelsen/HUECHI*/home.html ''Le chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo'', Firenze 1927]
* [[Mariano Armellini]],  [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/I/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/churches/_Texts/Armellini/ARMCHI*/home.html ''Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX'', Rome 1891]
* C. Rendina, ''Le Chiese di Roma'', Newton & Compton Editori, Milan 2000, p.&nbsp;13
* G. Carpaneto, ''Rione XIII Trastevere'', in AA.VV, ''I rioni di Roma'', Newton & Compton Editori, Milano 2000, Vol. III, pp.&nbsp;831–923
* G. Pelliccia e G. Rocca (curr.), ''Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione'' (10 voll.),  Edizioni paoline, Milan 1974-2003.
==External links==
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