San Girolamo dei Croati

Saint Jerome of the Croats is the national Catholic church of Croatia on Via Tomacelli in the Campus Martius of Rome.[1] It was first built in 1585-1587 for refugees from areas ruled by the Turks, and dedicated to St Jerome, who was from Dalmatia (former Roman Illyricum).It once faced the port built on the Tiber River, called the Porto di Ripetta.Around 1588, Pope Sixtus V, who as Cardinal Montalvo had served as cardinal-protector, commissioned Martino Longhi the Elder to completely rebuild the church and add a bell tower.Frescoes in the nave were completed by Pietro Gagliardi in 1847 from a bequest of Pope Pius IX.
Frontal section
San Girolamo degli Schiavoni in a 1667/69 engraving
Photograph of the Porto di Ripetta in 1865
Saint JeromeCroatsDenominationRoman CatholicTraditionRoman RiteTitular churchDedicationJeromeConsecratedChurchGroundbreakingCardinal protectorJosip BozanicCroatiaCampus MartiusPontifical Croatian College of Saint JeromeIllyriansItalianSchiavoniDalmatiaIllyricumFall of ConstantinoplePope Nicholas VTiber RiverPorto di RipettaPope Sixtus VMartino Longhi the ElderTrompe-l'œilGiovanni GuerrapendentivesPaolo GuidottiAndrea LilioPietro GagliardiPope Pius IXJuraj BarakovicJohannes LuciusIvan PaštrićProspero SantacroceFelice PerettiAlessandro Damasceni PerettiPedro de DezaSimeone Tagliavia d'AragoniaFelice CentiniMatteo PriuliGiovanni Delfino (camerlengo)Péter PázmányGirolamo Buonvisi Felice Piretti di MontalvoLipót KollonicsCornelio BentivoglioFranziskus von Paula Herzan von HarrasAntonio Maria PanebiancoLuigi SerafiniSerafino VannutelliLorinc SchlauchAndrea AiutiFrantisek Salesky BauerRaffaele Scapinelli di LeguignoSantiago Luis CopelloGustavo TestaPaolo BertoliFranjo KuharićJosip BozanićMariano ArmelliniChristian Hülsen