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Did you know that there is the Church of the Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans to Rome? Was the former National Church of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies until 1984!!

The Church of the Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans is a church of Rome, in the neighborhood Rule , located in Via Giulia. History: element in the list of Pius V asked the church is called S. Aura Iulia street, and there was an adjoining monastery of nuns. It was dedicated to St. Aurea, a martyr in Ostia. In 1572, reduced in disrepair, the church (monastery) was given to the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit that paved the Neapolitans, and there they built a new church dedicated to the Holy Spirit (1574).

In the fourteenth century was also known as S. Eusterio, as mentioned by the anonymous catalog of Turin, who says: Ecclesia s. Austere de campo Senensi Habet sacerdotem unum.

The church was then rebuilt and designed by Domenico Fontana Ottaviano Matte or maybe at the end of the sixteenth century. At the beginning of the eighteenth century underwent a profound transformation by Carlo Fontana. Other radical restoration was carried out in the mid nineteenth century by Antonio Cipolla who rebuilt the facade (1853), with sculpted portal and rose window, and inside, the choir and apse, giving the church its present appearance.

National Church of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, for fifty years, from 1934 until 1984 and (The year with a solemn ceremony, were moved in S. Chiara in Naples), hosts the remains of LL.MM. King Francis II of the Two Sicilies and Queen Sofia, Maria and their only daughter, HRH Princess Maria Cristina Pia who reposed in 1870.

For thirty years the church was closed due to serious water infiltration. The degradation took possession of the place of worship that seemed to be no longer recoverable, given the neglect and the cracks that threatened the stability of the building. In 1980 he was appointed Rector Msgr. Natalino Zagotto that began immediately and at first sight difficult to impossible task to restore and repair the church. The radical structural consolidation and architectural restoration, designed and directed by Giuseppe D'Emilio and produced by the chief executive engineer. Maurizio Pouchain, brought the building back its former glory. At Christmas 1986 the church was reopened for worship to be reborn to new life.