San Ciriaco de Camiliano
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San Ciriaco de Camiliano was an ancient church of the city of Rome, formerly located on the present site of the Piazza del Collegio Romano near the Via del Corso (the ancient Via Lata of the Romans). It was demolished in 1491 during construction on the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata.
San Ciriaco was located near the Via Lata, not far from the so-called arcus Diburi, which was afterwards called the Camilianum.[1] Mariano Armellini describes the arcus Diburi as an ancient arch surmounted by the tower, which was believed to be an entrance to a Roman monument called the Diribitorium, a large building begun by Agrippa, and finished by Augustus.[1] It was apparently used to count votes and distribute salaries to the Roman militias, and its name derives from the diribitores, or election officials.[2] It burned under Titus, together with the adjacent Iseum.[1] By the Middle Ages, the old name of the arch had been lost in common parlance, and it was called arco maggiore ("large arch") or the arco di Camillo (although according to Christian Hülsen that name was more the result of mistaken scholarship in the sixteenth century than an indication that the site was ever associated with someone named Camillus).[1][3] The arch was eventually named the Camillianum, which was applied to the neighborhood, and by extension, the church of San Ciriaco.[1]
Its dedication was to Saint Cyriacus, a Roman martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution, whose relics were kept in the church.
