Chiesa di Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano

Church of Santa Susanna. First church was consecrated here in 330 A.D. But present church was built in 1603 by Italian architect Carlo Maderno (1556-1629). Admission is free but any donations are welcome and highly appreciated. Rome, Lazio, 🇮🇹Italy 🇮🇹. August 28, 2014.

First of all, this tough year has made every church so empty!!! What a pity :-(
So I hope everybody will come back and visit our Lord.
Second, this temple is so big and full of historic meaning.
Finally, everytime I visit this evironment I discover new things.
Go and visit it !!!!

We attempted to visit St Susanna yesterday (16 April 2019) as part of a religious studies trip on St Genesius but the church is closed. Very disappointing, wish they would better update their information for the public.

Decent little church at the St. Bernard square.

Nun nicht mehr allgemein zugänglich! Hier war in der Antike das Ende der Thermen! Gegenüber der Kirche S. Maria della Vittoria auf der einen Seite und San Bernardo alle Terme auf der anderen ist diese Barockkirche der Zisterzienserinnen gelegen, die auch von der National-Kirche der Vereinigten Staaten genutzt wurde. Seit letztere nach San Patrizio auszog, ist die Kirche leider nicht mehr allgemein zugänglich. Auch nicht für unsere Susanna. Meine Skizze zeigt die Platzanlage mit dem Moses-Brunnen gegenüber.

+JMJ. During my almost annual pilgrimage to Rome, I stopped in to pick up tickets to attend the Papal Audience and would sometime participate in the Holy Mass. Not because it was offered in American English, but because it was the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, another opportunity to hear the Word of God and to receive Jesus, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity through the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Also, due to my interest to interact with others who were doing what I wanted to do, live in Rome, I spent one evening in St Susanna's library engaged in a Bible study with seminarians and other pilgrims (unknown to myself.) It was a meaningful and insightful, though brief, study. Also, any visit I make to the Churches of Rome are not so much to study the architecture as to admire it and the art and spirituality enhancing, images and statues therein. St Susanna has much to admire with the addition of an excavated area underneath the Church exposed for history-minded pilgrims and tourists. It is a house of worship and prayer well worth a visit.

This is no longer the American national church. The church was closed in 2013 "for repairs", but no work seems to be going on. As from August 2017, the American expatriate community is permanently worshipping in San Patrizio. Relationships between the Cistercian nuns, who own the church, and the Paulist Fathers, who minister to the expatriates, broke down completely. In 2019, there is still no hope of anything happening here. Could people pass the word around, to avoid disappointment?