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# The very ancient church of Santa Bibiana is now almost built into the Roma Termini railway station, and in fact is barely visible behind the station's buildings
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ochen-drevniaia-tserkov-santa-bibiana-teper-pochti-vstroena-v-zdanie-gorodskogo-vokzala-rima-termini-faaticheski-eio-pochti-ne-vidno-iz-za-stroenii-zhd-stantsii/
- Published: 2025-12-02T19:41:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:50.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Faith, Art, Heritage, Rome

The very ancient church of Santa Bibiana is now almost built into the Roma Termini railway station, and in fact is barely visible behind the station's buildings. Inside the church, in the main altar, lie the relics of the saint. Besides such holy objects as the column at which the young Christian woman was tortured under Flavius Claudius Julianus, the church walls preserve one of the masterpieces of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who took part in their rebuilding in the seventeenth century. The sculpture of Saint Viviana of Rome, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, holds the palm branch of martyrdom and is bound to a column

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