Santa Maria della Concezione in Campo Marzio

Santa Maria della Concezione (Egyptian Arabic: كنيسه سانتا ماريا ديلا كونسيزيونى فى كامبو مارزيو) is a church in Rome, located on Piazza Campo Marzio in the Campo Marzio rione. It serves as the national church in Rome for Syriac Catholics. History The church and its adjoining monastery traditionally originated in connection with the Iconoclastic controversy within the Byzantine Empire , when some Basilian nuns fled from Constantinople to Rome in the 8th century. They brought with them various relics, including the body of Gregory of Nazianzus , the noted 4th-century theologian and saint. They were given a home on the site now occupied by the church, where they founded a monastery with a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and an oratory next to the church to contain Gregory's remains. The earliest reference to the.