Chiesa delle Santissima Stimmate di San Francesco

Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco Holy Stigmata of St Francis of Assisi (in English)
Façade on via dei Cestari, seen from Largo di Torre Argentina
Basic information
Location	Rome, Italy
Geographic coordinates	Coordinates: 41°53′47″N 12°28′40″E / 41.89639°N 12.47778°E / 41.89639; 12.47778
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Lazio
Country	Italy
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Giovanni Battista Contini
Architectural type	Church
Architectural style	Baroque/Rococo
Groundbreaking	1297
Completed	1714

The Ss. Stimmate di San Francesco ("Church of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis") is a church in central Rome, Italy, in the Rione Pigna, sited where previously there was a church called Ss. Quaranta Martiri de Calcarario. It is located on via dei Cestari, near corner with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and across the street and diagonal from the Largo di Torre Argentina.

A first church in the place was consecrated in 1297. In 1597 the land was given by Pope Clement VIII to the Confraternita delle Ss.Stimmate; the construction a new building was completed in 1714, on designs by Giovanni Battista Contini.

The facade was designed by Antonio Canevari, in a plan recalling Pietro da Cortona's style. In the center niche formed by the interrupted tympanum is a statue of the saint receiving the stigmata as he looks heavenward. The ceiling has a Glory of St. Francis by Luigi Garzi, while the first chapel to the right has a Flagellation by Marco Benefial with a cupola frescoed by Giovanni Odazzi. The main altarpiece is a Saint Francis with stigmata (1719) by Francesco Trevisani. In the first chapel the left is a Ss. Quaranta Martiri (Holy Forty martyrs) by Giacinto Brandi, author of another St. Francis with Stigmata in the Hall of Stimmate.