San Giovanni della Pigna
Traversa Vicolo della Minerva
Rome, September 2019
“San Giovanni della Pigna (Saint John of the Pine Cone) is a small Roman Catholic church located on Traversa Vicolo della Minerva 51 in the rione Pigna of Rome, Italy. The church was made a cardinalate deaconry by Pope John Paul II in 1985. Initially a church dedicated to Saints Eleuterio and Ginnasi Martyrs was located here. In ruinous state, it was granted by Pope Gregory XIII to the Archconfraternity of the ‘Pietà verso li carcerati’, led by the Jesuit Giovanni Talier. The lay organization made outreach to prisoners, including galley prisoners. Pope Sixtus V granted them the right to pardon one prisoner under the death sentence. In 1624, the church was refurbished under the designs of Angelo Torroni. The main altarpiece depicts St John the Baptist by Baldassare Croce; a Pieta by Luigi Garzi; and a St Eleuterio by Giacomo Zoboli.” (San Giovanni della Pigna, Wikipedia)
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