San Lorenzo in Damaso

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Interior of San Lorenzo in Damaso.
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Interior of San Lorenzo in Damaso.

San Lorenzo in Damaso (Saint Lawrence in the House of Damasus) is a basilica church in Rome, one of several dedicated to the Roman deacon and martyr Saint Lawrence. Known since antiquity (synod of Pope Symmachus, 499) as Titulus Damasi, according to tradition San Lorenzo in Damaso was built by Pope Damasus I in his own house, in the 380s.

Donato Bramante rebuilt the church in the 15th century, by order of Cardinal Raffaele Riario, within the restoration works of the close by Palazzo della Cancelleria.

The last restoration was necessary after a fire that damaged the basilica in 1944.

The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Laurentii in Damaso is Antonio Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid.

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