Chiesa dei Ss. Michele e Magno a Borgo Santo Spirito

The origin of the church of St Michael and St Magnus, perched on the southern edge of the Janiculum Hill, are extremely ancient. The sources place its architectural beginnings in the ninth century, when the Frisian population, who came from coastal areas along the North Sea and had converted to Christianity, decided to build a chapel for their schola.  In the course of the High Middle Ages, in fact, various communities dedicated to welcoming and assisting pilgrims from particular nations had sprung up in proximity to the tomb of the Apostle Peter: these were the scholae peregrinorum. They belonged not only to the Frisians, but also to the Franks, the Lombards and the Saxons, for example.

In 1989 St John Paul II decide to consecrate a pagan altar with the relics of the first missionaries to come from the Netherlands, St Servatius and St Willibrord.