Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . rch narrates that S. Lorenzo, deacon andmartyr, daily distributed alms to the poor in front of this church—then the house of S. Ciriaca—with whom he had taken refuge. Opposite, is the round Church of S. Stefano Rotondo, dedicatedby S. Simplicius in 4(57, but completed only by Felix IV. (520-39).It is seldom used for service, except on S. Stephens Day (December26) ; but visitors are admitted through a little cloister, in whichstands a well of beautiful proportions, of temp. Leo X.—attributedto Michelangelo. The interior is exceedingly cur
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . rch narrates that S. Lorenzo, deacon andmartyr, daily distributed alms to the poor in front of this church—then the house of S. Ciriaca—with whom he had taken refuge. Opposite, is the round Church of S. Stefano Rotondo, dedicatedby S. Simplicius in 4(57, but completed only by Felix IV. (520-39).It is seldom used for service, except on S. Stephens Day (December26) ; but visitors are admitted through a little cloister, in whichstands a well of beautiful proportions, of temp. Leo X.—attributedto Michelangelo. The interior is exceedingly curious architec-turally. It measures one hundred and thirty-three feet in diameter,containmg a double circle of granite columns, thirty-six in theouter and twenty in the inner series, enclosing two tail corinthiancolumns, with two pilasters supporting a cross wall. It thus some- > His sketch is in the collection at Windsor Castle. » A square nimbus indicates that a portrait was executed before, a rounda/ter, the death of the person Walks in Rome 237 what recalls the Rotunda at Epidaurus. From the former circlesubtend four transepts or arms of the cross. In the centre is amiserable tabernacle in which are relics of S. Stephen (whose bodyis said to be at S. Lorenzo). In the entrance of the church is anancient marble seat from which S. Gregory is said to have readhis fourth homily. The outer walls are lined with contemptible and brutalisingfrescoes by Pomerancio and Tevipesta. They begin with the Cruci-fixion, but as the Holy Innocents really suffered before our Saviour,one of them is represented lying on each side of the Cross. Nextfollows the stoning of S. Stephen, and the frescoes continue toportray every phase of human agony in the most revolting detail,but are interesting as showing an historical series of what theRoman Church considers the best authenticated martyrdoms, viz.:— f&. Peter, S. Paul, Nero . . J S. , burie
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