Church of the Gesu
Church of the Gesu
Saint Francisco de Borja, as general of the Society of Jesus, begins its construction.
The mother church of the Society of Jesus was a personal project of Saint Ignatius of Loyola who, in 1551, commissioned the plans for its construction. In 1561, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese provided the budgets and Saint Francisco de Borja, as general of the order, began its construction.
In one of the wings of the temple is the chapel of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, with a baroque work that covers the tomb of the saint and on one side there is another dedicated to Saint Francisco de Borja.
Attached to the church is the professed house, which preserves the four original rooms where Saint Ignatius lived for the last 17 years of his life, where he died and where the four generals of the company who succeeded him lived.
