Santa Prisca is a basilica

Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a Roman public building, usually located in the forum of a Roman town. Public basilicas began to appear in Hellenistic cities in the 2nd century BC.The term was also applied to buildings used for religious purposes...

 church in

Churches of Rome

There are more than 900 churches in Rome. Most, but not all, of these are Roman Catholic, with some notable Roman Catholic Marian churches.The first churches of Rome originated in places where Christians met. They were divided into three categories:...

 Rome

Rome

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, devoted to Saint Prisca

Saint Prisca

Saint Prisca was a Roman young woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. Her dates are unknown. She is revered as a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church...

, a 1st century martyr, on the Aventine hill. It was built in the 4th or 5th century over a temple of Mithras, and is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod.

Damaged in the Norman

Normans

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 Sack of Rome

Sack of Rome (1084)

The Sack of Rome of May 1084 was a Norman sack, the result of the pope's call for aid from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard.Pope Gregory VII was besieged in the Castel Sant'Angelo by the Emperor Henry IV in June 1083. He held out and called for aid from the Guiscard, who was then fighting the...

, the church was restored several times. The current aspect is due to the 1660 restoration, which included a new facade by Carlo Lombardi.

In the interior, the columns are the only visible remains of the ancient church. Also a baptismal font

Baptismal font

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 allegedly used by Saint Peter

Saint Peter

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 is conserved. The altar in the crypt contains the relics of Saint Prisca; the frescoes in the crypt are by Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta was an Italian painter and engraver, a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism...

. Anastasio Fontebuoni

Anastasio Fontebuoni

Anastasio Fontebuoni was an Italian Baroque painter, native of Florence. Fontebuoni proved to be one of the Florentine painters are more open to the influence of Caravaggio's naturalism. Fontebuoni was educated in the school of Domenico Passignano. According to Giovanni Baglioni, he visited Rome...

 frescoed the walls of the nave with Saints and angels with the instruments of passion. In the sacristy, is a painting of the Immaculate conception with angels by Giovanni Odazzi

Giovanni Odazzi

Giovanni Odazzi was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.He was a pupil of Ciro Ferri, then worked under the guidance of Giovanni Battista Gaulli. He also worked with Cornelis Bloemaert...

, and on the main altar a Baptism of Santa Prisca by Domenico Passignano

Domenico Passignano

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Titular priests

The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Priscae is Justin Francis Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia (US). Previous Cardinal-Priests include:

• Giovanni Colonna the Elder (1192)
• Zbigniew Oleśnicki
  Zbigniew Olesnicki
  Zbigniew Oleśnicki may refer to:* Zbigniew Oleśnicki * Zbigniew Oleśnicki , nephew of cardinal...
  
   (1449)
• Juan de Castro (1496–1506)
• Francesco Adriano Ceva
  Francesco Adriano Ceva
  Francesco Adriano Ceva was a Catholic Cardinal from Savoy.Francesco Adriano Ceva was born in 1580 in Mondovì, Savoy to the House of Ceva; Marquises of Ceva...
  
   (1643–1655)
• Adeodato Giovanni Piazza (1937)
• Angelo Roncalli
  Pope John XXIII
  -Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
  
   (1953) later Pope John XXIII
• Giovanni Urbani (1958)
• José da Costa Nunes (1962)
• Giovanni Benelli (1977)
• Alfonso López Trujillo
  Alfonso López Trujillo
  Alfonso López Trujillo was a Colombian Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.-Youth:...
  
  (1983).