This church was originally built over the Temple of Minerva and was rebuilt in 1280 by the Dominicans. It is the only Gothic church in Rome. Behind the Sacristy is the chapel where St. Catherine died in 1380. Part of her relics are buried under the high altar. A statue worth seeing is Michelangelo's Christ Carrying the Cross (1521). The tombstone of painter Beato Angelico (1387-c1455) is also here. In the piazza is Bernini's famed marble elephant statue with an Egyptian obelisk on top. This church is surrounded by religious shops catering to priests and religious leaders, containing exquisite ceremonial robes, miters, jeweled books, chalices, and the like, and well worth browsing.