Santa Croce in Via Flaminia
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Santa Croce in Via Flaminia is a basilica church dedicated to the Holy Cross on the Via Flaminia in Rome. It was first built in 1913 by the architect Aristide Leonori for Pope Pius X, in celebration of the 1600th anniversary of the Edict of Milan. In the style of a Roman basilica, it has a mosaic-decorated facade, a portico with six Doric columns and a mosaic by Biagio Biagetti, a five-storey bell tower and a three-aisled nave divided by six columns of Bavarian granite on each side.
It was opened for worship on 12 July 1914, and granted to the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (Stigmatines), though the consecration Mass was only celebrated in 1918 (by Msgr. Giuseppe Pallica, Archbishop of Filippi)
In 1954, Pope Pius XII declared it an alternative station church for Friday after the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Pope Paul VI elevated it to the status of Minor Basilica in 1964.
The present titular priest of the church is H.E. William Wakefield Cardinal Baum, who was created cardinal in 1976.
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