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Sant'Eustachio ([santeuˈstaːkjo]) is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, named for the martyr Saint Eustace.It is located on Via di Sant'Eustachio in the rione Sant'Eustachio, a block west of the Pantheon and via della Rotonda, and a block east of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza and the Via della Dogana Vecchia.
The town's church, built in the twelfth century, was dedicated to Saint Eustace. It was rebuilt after being partially destroyed by an earthquake in 1706. The island of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands is named after him. Also St Eustachius church is situated in Pakiapuram village, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.
The island's name, Sint Eustatius, is Dutch for Saint Eustace (also spelled Eustachius or Eustathius), a legendary Christian martyr, known in Spanish as San Eustaquio and in Portuguese as Santo Eustáquio or Santo Eustácio. The island's prior Dutch name was Nieuw Zeeland ('New Zeeland'), named by the Zeelanders who settled there in the 1630s.
The head of the deer on the top of the church of Sant'Eustachio Sant'Eustachio ( Italian: [santeuˈstaːkjo] ) is the 8th rione of Rome , Italy, identified by the initials R. VIII . It is named after the eponymous church and is located within the Municipio I .
The church became the parish church of the Les Halles area in 1223 and was renamed Saint-Eustache in 1303. [1] The name of the church refers to Saint Eustace, a Roman general of the second century AD. He was a passionate hunter; his conversion followed a vision he had of a crucifix in the horns of a deer he was hunting, He was martyred, along ...
St. Eustatius Church [1] (Dutch: Sint Eustatius Kerk) is a parish of the Catholic Church in Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, the capital of the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius, in the Dutch Caribbean. It is part of the Catholic Diocese of Willemstad ( Dioecesis Gulielmopolitana ), based on the island of Curacao .
A protomartyr (Koine Greek, πρῶτος prôtos 'first' + μάρτυς mártus 'martyr') is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protomartyr (with no other qualification of country or region) can mean Saint Stephen , the first martyr of the Christian Church.
San Stae is a church in central Venice, in the sestiere of Santa Croce.. Interior of San Stae. San Stae, an abbreviation for Saint Eustachius, was founded at the beginning of the 11th century and reconstructed in the 17th century, and has a main facade (1709) on the Grand Canal of Venice, constructed by Domenico Rossi, and richly decorated with statuary by Giuseppe Torretto, Antonio Tarsia ...