Santi Nereo e Achilleo

Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Façade of the basilica of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
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41°52′49″N 12°29′41″E / 41.8802°N 12.4948°E / 41.8802; 12.4948
Location28 Via delle Terme di Caracalla,
Rome
CountryItaly
DenominationCatholic
Religious instituteOratorians
History
StatusTitular church
DedicationSaints Nereus and Achilleus

Santi Nereo ed Achilleo is a fourth-century basilica church in Rome, Italy, located in via delle Terme di Caracalla in the rione Celio facing the main entrance to the Baths of Caracalla. It has been the titular church of Cardinal Celestino Aós Braco since 28 November 2020. Unusually it is part of a detached portion of the parish of Chiesa Nuova rather than the local geographical parish of San Saba and is served by Oratorians as a satellite of the Roman Oratory.

The underground basilica church at the Catacombs of Domitilla on the Appian Way, virtually lost in the early Middle Ages and rediscovered in the 1870s by the archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi, carries the same dedication to Nereo and Achilleo.[1]

  1. ^ Joan M. Petersen, "The identification of the Titulus Fasciolae and its connection with Pope Gregory the Great", Vigiliae Christianae 30.2 (June 1976:151–158).