If San Crisogono Monday had a sinking feeling, today’s church would be the last straw, at least for Pope Saint Marcellus, who in being condemned by the Emperor Maxentius, had his newly made church converted into a stable, for which he was to care for, and in his elderly state, he had to bale—that is, bail out of here to the next life.
Today his relics are under the main altar.
A major fire destroyed the church in 1519, but preserved in this side altar is a thirteenth century fresco of the Virgin and Child.
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