page_title: Balbina of Rome
section_title: Basilica of Santa Balbina
hierarchical_section_title: Balbina of Rome / Basilica of Santa Balbina
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Santa Balbina a Roma. Foto by Lalupa.
context_page_description: Balbina of Rome, sometimes called Saint Balbina and Balbina the Virgin is venerated as a virgin martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
context_section_description: Santa Balbina is a basilica church in Rome, devoted to St. Balbina. It was built in the 4th century over the house of consul Lucius Fabius Cilo on the Aventine Hill, behind the Baths of Caracalla. 
  The site should not be confused with the location of a catacomb named after her (coem. Balbinae) which lay between the Via Appia and the Via Ardeatina not far from the little church called Domine quo vadis. Over this cemetery another, now lost basilica was erected in the fourth century by Pope Mark.
  Tradition has it that it was at this church that the Emperor Constantine bade farewell to the Pope on his departure for Constantinople.
caption: Santa Balbina Basilica in Rome
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