Santi Nereo e Achilleo

Santi Nereo ed 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
Location	28 Via delle Terme di Caracalla,; Rome
Country	Italy
Denomination	Catholic
History
Status	Titular church
Dedication	Saints 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.

Note that the cemetery church of the catacomb of Saint Domatilla 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]

^ 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).

[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).

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