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Memorials

S. M. Maggiore memoria della consecrazione a

Situated In

S. Maria Maggiore -- chiesa di S. Maria Maggiore -- navata centrale
Rosselli Number 0.0
Memorial Type plaque
Status extant
Current Repository in situ
Primary Installation wall
Secondary Installation na
Tomb Form na
Liturgical Orientation frn
Component Parts
  • plaque
Decorative Elements
Database ID 31679

Inscriptions (1 total)

2274 S • PELAGIVS PP CONSECRAVIT /
ECCLESIAM HANC • S • M • MIS /
SVB ANNO DÑI CCCCC80 /
DIE XVII APRILIS		 Saint Pelagio Pope consecrated this church of Santa Maria Maggiore about the year 580 on the 17th day of April

Related Memorials (1 total)

S. M. Maggiore 01a Cappella Maggiore de Cappelli

Sources (2 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 988
G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine vol. 3, p. 262

Notes

  • [a] As Stefano Rosselli and Giuseppe Richa noted, this plaque carries an error either of the identity of the pope or the date of consecration. Pelagius I reigned from 556 to 561 while Pelagius II was pope in the year 580. Neither was canonized, raising questions about the abbreviation that begins the inscription. Moreover, also noticed in the sources, the style of the lettering and carving are later Renaissance, suggesting that it was in 1580, the millennial anniversary of the consecration, that the plaque was carved and installed.