San Biagio della Pagnotta[1] or San Biagio degli Armeni[2] is a church in Rome, in the Ponte district, on via Giulia, near Palazzo Sacchetti.
It is dedicated to Saint Blaise and is the national church of the Armenian community in Rome.
[4] It originated before the 10th century, but is first recorded in a 1072 inscription preserved inside it, which records that Domenico, abbot of the adjoining monastery (now a hotel), rebuilt the church under pope Alexander II.
The church was rebuilt in the 18th century, including its present facade by Giovanni Antonio Perfetti - at its top is a fresco of Saint Blaise's miracle.
It houses the relic of the throat of Saint Blaise as well as a Pietro da Cortona painting of angels adoring the Holy Sacrament and a painting of the Madonna delle Grazie which was Canonically crowned in 1671.