Dear Patrick,
According to the Blue Guide to Rome, that's the name that was given to the
Pantheon when it was consecrated as a Christian church in the year 609.
It's also called Maria Rotunda, evidently.
Sherry Reames
At 08:55 PM 1/28/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>A miracle collection from St.-Ouen at Rouen from the eleventh centures
>mentions an "ecclesia Sanctae Mariae ad Martyres" in Rome. Does anyone
>know whether this church still stands, and whether there is a standard
>Italian name for it? Or where I might look these things up? (Our library
>sources are pretty thin here and I've drawn a blank.)
>
>
>Many thanks.
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>Patrick J. Nugent
>Department of Religion
>Earlham College
>Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
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