Chapel of the Holy Cross

The facade is composed of a limestone Doric portico with the inscription “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam”. The chapel is topped with an octagonal cupola and a 14-foot gold cross that can be seen from afar. In the interior, four corner shrines are dedicated to Jesuit martyrs: Saint Isaac Jogues, Saint Edmund Campion, Blessed Miguel Pro, and Saint Paul Miki. In the apse is an altarpiece of the scene at La Storta, where Saint Ignatius received a vision of God the Father and Christ holding the cross and was told by Christ “Ego tibi Romae propitius ero.” (“I will be favorable to you in Rome.”)