Not a well documented saint, Praxedes is said to have sponged up the blood of second-century martyrs who got the chop before she did, and squeezed it into a well, marked by a porphyry disc in the nave ...

Inside Rome's oldest churches, Ute Junker discovers a potent side of the city's history. When trying to describe the Chapel of Zeno in the church of Santa Prassede, the word "dazzling" is hard to ...