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Sante Orsola e Caterina

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Photograph of the facade of the church
Arrow points to its location on a 1625 map near the base of the steps to the Campidoglio

Sante Orsola e Caterina was a small Roman Catholic confraternity church located near a convent found in Tor de' Specchi, on the western slopes of the Campidoglio, in the rione Campitelli of Rome, Italy. The church was torn down to make space for a highway.

The church was built at the site of a parish church once called San Niccolò de Funari.[1] The church was transferred to a confraternity, made archconfraternity under Clement X, and rededicated to St Ursula and St Catherine, and rebuilt under the designs of Carlo de Dominicis.[2]

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  1. ^ Guida metodica di Roma e suoi contorni, by Giuseppe Melchiorri, Rome (1836); page 426.
  2. ^ Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica e istorica di Roma moderna; by Rodulphinus Venuti, 1766, page 347-348.