Santi Celso e Giuliano stands on Vicolo del Curato 12 in Rome, just off the road to Ponte Sant'Angelo. It is a minor basilica and papal chapel, cared for by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest since 2019. The first church on the site is dated to at least 1008, and in 1198 it was made a papal chapel. From the mid-fifteenth century it held a relic of the left foot of Mary Magdalene.
Building and remodeling continued intermittently in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Donato Bramante drafted a design that was never carried out, so the church remained unfinished. In 1513 a papal bull gave the president of the Office of Ceremonies the title of archpriest.
Carlo de Dominicis designed the present Baroque church under Pope Clement XII, and it was completed in 1735. Pompeo Batoni painted the altarpiece, Christ in Glory. Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII, was baptized there in 1876.
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