Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Anima

Santa Maria dell’Anima—“Our Lady of the Soul”—grew out of a very practical Roman need: in 1350, Johannes and Katharina Peters of Dordrecht bought three houses and turned them into “Beatae Mariae Animarum,” a private hospice for pilgrims during the Jubilee of 1350. That hospice was erected on its present site in 1386, and Pope Boniface IX confirmed its foundation with a bull dated 9 November 1399, granting indulgences. In the 15th century it expanded across the Holy Roman Empire’s world in Rome, becoming the German national church and hospice for German-speaking visitors—sometimes linked to Austrian protection under Habsburg emperors. Later, the Renaissance church associated with this institution was built in 1522 and designed by Andrea Sansovino, with work starting in 1523. This place also became a resting ground: it is the burial spot of Dutch Pope Adrian VI, and of Cardinals William of Enckenvoirt and Andrew of Austria. …

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