Santa Brigida a Campo de' Fiori is an 18th century convent church, which is also the national church of Sweden.
St Bridget (Birgitta Birgersdotter) was a Swedish noblewoman who founded the monastic Order of the Holy Saviour at Vadstena in Sweden after she was widowed in 1344. To obtain papal approval of her new foundation, usually known as the Bridgettines, she journeyed to Rome in 1350 with one of her daughters, Catherine. They settled there until St Bridget's death in 1373. She was canonised by Pope Boniface IX on October 7th 1390. Catherine was canonised almost a century later in 1484.
The façade was designed by Andrea Fucigna (c. 1658-1711) in 1705. The inscription reads: IN · HONOREM · S[anctae] · BIRGITTAE · D[edicata]. The facade is crowned with two statues, St Bridget and her daughter St Catherine, both the work of Fucigna.
The Glory of St Bridget
The small nave has a domed apse and a chapel on either side. The Glory of St Bridget(1709-11) in the barrel-vaulted ceiling was painted by Biagio Puccini.
Monument to Nils Karlsson Bielke by Tommaso Righi
On the right side of the nave is a monument to Nils Karlsson Bielke (died 1765) by Tommaso Righi.