Chiesa di San Saturnino Martire

It was erected by the faculties granted by Pope Pius XI in the audience of 22 June 1932 to the Cardinal Vicar Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani, on 1 January 1935 with the vicarial decree Assiduo vigilantique cura and entrusted to the diocesan clergy of Rome; it was consecrated on 6 January of the same year.
The territory was taken from that of the parishes of St Agnes outside the walls, St Teresa of Avila in Corso d'Italia and St Joseph in Via Nomentana. Recognition for civil effects of the vicariate provision was decreed on 16 July 1935 by the King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele III; the architectural design is by Clemente Busiri Vici.
Since 29 November 1987, the parish church has housed the relics of the titular saint. It seemed only right to begin the account of the life of St Saturninus with the epigraph that the poet of martyrs, Pope St Damasus, placed on the tomb of the patron saint, reproduced in full on marble inside our parish church. On 29 November 1987, the relics of the Roman martyr saint Saturninus, which had remained in the basilica of Saints John and Paul for a long time after the disappearance of the two churches dedicated to him on the Via Salaria and at Monte Cavallo, were transferred to our parish church dedicated to his name and erected by the Supreme Pontiff Pius XI in 1930 for the pastoral care of the district that had sprung up between the Nomentana and Salaria consular roads.