Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano
You’re in front of Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano, a Catholic church whose story reaches back surprisingly far. The site had a Christian place of worship by AD 280, and it’s even linked to early texts associated with Susanna of Rome—not originally as a martyr, but as the church’s patron. What you see today comes from the early modern rebuild: the current church was rebuilt between 1585 and 1603, for Cistercian nuns who founded their community on the spot in 1587. The design is often credited to Carlo Maderno, and the result fits Baroque architecture. One particularly lived-in chapter is its American connection. From 1921 to 2017, this church functioned as the national parish for residents of the United States, with pastoral work assigned to the Paulist Fathers—a ministry that later moved to San Patrizio (Saint Patrick). There’s a great reminder here that Rome’s sacred spaces keep changing hands, even while their titles endure.
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