Sant'Eustachio
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Sant'Eustachio is a titular church in Rome, named for Saint Eustace.
It was founded in the 8th century, or possibly earlier, as a diaconia (a centre for helping the poor), and restored in the 12th century (including the addition of a new campanile). In the 16th century, it was a favoured praying-place for St Philip Neri and in the 17th and 18th centuries it was almost completely rebuilt (with only the campanile remaining from the old structure, and a new high altar, in bronze and polychrome marble, by Nicola Salvi added in 1739 and a 1749 baldachino by Ferdinando Fuga).
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