S. Croce al Flaminio: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Croce_a_Via_Flaminia.
Completed in 1913, this is what the plaque on the back of the altar reads:
"This altar was presented to the Holy Father, Pius X, by the readers and friends of the Sacred Heart Review of Boston Mass, USA in commemoration of both the sixteenth centenary of the Edict of Milan by Constantine and of the silver jubilee of the Sacred Heart Review. His Holiness most willingly gave his sanction to the pious foundation in perpetuum of two annual Masses, one for the living, the other for the deceased contributors, to be celebrated at this altar."
Here in Philadelphia about 100 years ago some Anglo-Catholic Episcopalians built what looks like a lovely copy of S. Croce al Flaminio's bell tower for St Elisabeth's Church in South Philly before it was an Italian neighbourhood. (They weren't trying to convert Roman Catholics. Ironically the building fits the character of the area perfectly but is not used by the community really.) The priests who had it built and much of the congregation became Roman Catholics about 10 years later; the Episcopal parish limped along for decades (in the Depression being a soup kitchen trying to convert Italians) before closing in the 1990s. The building still stands as a Pentecostal church.
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