San Crisogono is one of the oldest churches in Rome, the Titulus Chrysogoni being included in the list of tituli already in the list of 499. The first church was built in the 4th century, under Pope Sylvester I (314-335), but was rebuilt first in the 12th century and then again in 1626, based on a design by Giovanni Battista Soria, at the behest of Cardinal Scipione Cappellolli-Borghese, whose name stands out on the front and whose heraldic emblems (eagle and winged dragon) are repeated everywhere. Under the current church, the remains of the first are visible, discovered in the archaeological investigations of 1907 and in subsequent excavations. The basilica was for centuries the national church of the Sardinians and Corsicans residing in Rome: several Corsicans who were already in the Pope’s service in the papal Corsican guard are buried there.