It lies on the northern slope of the Palazzolo hill, in Rione Borgo, near the Vatican, and is the national church dedicated to the Netherlands.

A 19th century source calls the church Santi Michele e Magno in Sassia, due to a location on a Vico dei Sassoni.

[4] The Schola of the Frisians is mentioned at the time of Pope Leo III's return to Rome in 799, at Charlemagne's visit in 800 and by Louis II of Italy in 844.

Thanks to its location it was preserved in the 16th century when all the buildings at the bottom of the hill were demolished for the construction of St. Peter's Basilica.

The Church of the Frisians is the only existing building that reminds us directly of the scholae, built around the tomb of St.

It was at this time that Saint Magnus of Anagni, whose remains ended up in the church five hundred years after his death, was added as a patron.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the interior was transformed to the extent that only small Romanesque details remain visible.