Church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinal
Built as an oratory for the Jesuit novitiate, established by Saint Francisco de Borja in 1566.
The church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinal was built between 1658 and 1670 as an oratory for the novitiate of the Society of Jesus.
In 1566, the Jesuits had opened their second novitiate, the first in Rome, on the Quirinal Hill, on a property that included a small abandoned 13th-century chapel dedicated to Saint Andrew.
Saint Francisco de Borja, General of the Company, decided to use the place as the residence of the novitiate, which remained in charge of the order until its suppression in 1773. Later it was recovered from 1814 to 1870. In 1925 the Jesuits took over again church.
With an elliptical plan, its stucco decoration was designed by Bernini.
Inside are the remains of Saint Stanislaus Kostka, a young Polish nobleman who traveled from Vienna to Rome alone to become a Jesuit and who died ten months after his arrival.
In the chapel dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola there is a painting by Ludovico Mazzanti (1686-1775) in which Saint Francisco de Borja appears in the company of Ignatius and Saint Luis Gonzaga.
