San Marone

It is a church in Rome, in the Ludovisi district, on Via Aurora. It is dedicated to the 5th century Syrian hermit saint, founder of the Maronite Church, and is officiated by the Maronites of Lebanon with an Antiochian rite in Arabic. It was built in 1890 to a design by Andrea Busiri Vici with the adjoining Maronite monastery, which was converted into a hotel in 1936. It is the national church of Lebanon.
At the end of the 19th century, the Maronites, who had already been present in Rome in the 16th century, started building a hospice for poor pilgrims and a church dedicated to St. Maron, a Syrian monk who died in the 5th century, in the new Ludovisi district. Work began in 1886 and was completed in 1890 to a design by Andrea Busiri Vici (1818-1911), while the hospice was built by his son Carlo (1856-1925). The church is officiated in Aramaic. The façade has two orders. On the first is a small vestibule with a round arch. In the centre is the entrance portal surmounted by a rose window. In the upper part is a three-light mullioned window with two framed windows on either side. The single-nave interior, restored in 1936, has no decorations of particular historical-artistic value.