San Francesco Borgia is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Crociferi #7, adjacent to the former Collegio Gesuita, and parallel to San Benedetto, and about a block south on Crociferi of the church and convent of San Giuliano, in the city of Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy. The church is mainly used for exhibits, but still holds much of the original Jesuit artwork. When the Jesuits arrived in the mid-16th century to Catania, they were assigned the ancient church of the Ascencione located at this site. Corresponding to their growing influence, they commissioned a new church dedicated to Saint Ignatius Loyola, a few blocks from here, on the present via Etna, completed by 1578 and designed by Tommaso Blandino. When that building was razed by the 1693 Sicily earthquake, they chose the site of the Ascencione church to build a new baroque church was designed by the fellow Jesuit Angelo Italia, begun in 1698, and completed by 1736. More information...
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