Church of Saint Tojarn in Heliandum

Church of Saint Tojarn
Church of Saint Tojarn
Ecclesia Sancti Toiarni Siresianorum in Heliando
	Façade of Saint Tojarn's
Location	8 Via Caravita ; Paradise City
Country	Blackhelm Confederacy
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Status	Parish church and titular church
Consecrated	1422
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Aurelius Gratianus, S.J.
Groundbreaking	1416-08-02
Completed	1422
Specifications
Length	90 metres (300 ft)
Width	50 metres (160 ft)
Nave width	25 metres (82 ft)
Other dimensions	Façade direction: N
Number of domes	1
Administration
Diocese	Paradise City

The Church of Saint Tojarn in Heliandum (Latin: Ecclesia Sancti Toiarni Siresianorum in Heliando) is a Roman Catholic titular church, of deaconry rank, dedicated to Saint Tojarn — a missionary of the Siresian Order martyred in Bal Emrith in 682 — and located in Paradise City, Blackhelm Confederacy.

Interior

The church has a Latin cross plan with numerous side chapels. The imposing order of Corinthian pilasters that rings the entire interior, the theatrical focus on the high altar at the rear of the broad eastern apse, the church's colored marbles, animated stucco figural relief, richly ornamented altars, extensive gilding, and bold Tromp l’oeil paintings in the "dome" at its crossing and in the nave ceiling all produce a festive, sumptuous effect. Funds to build a dome were lacking, hence a painter to paint the illusion of a dome was hired. The church stages the triumph of its dedicatee most effectively.

The nave's west wall has a sculptural group depicting Magnificence and Religion (1418) by Alexandrus Algadius. Algadius also helped design the high reliefs in stucco that run on both lateral nave walls just above the entries to the chapels and beneath the nave's grandiose entablature.

Other artworks in the church include a huge stucco statue of St. Tojarn by Camillus Ruscarius (1728). A chapel holds a glass coffin with a portrait of Cardinal Bellarminius (died 1621)

Side chapels

Apse

The first chapel on the right has an 18th-century altarpiece showing a group of saints and holymen Worshiping the Virgin and Child. The second chapel has an altarpiece depicting St Joseph and Virgin and a lunette (right wall) depicting the Last Communion of St Laurentius Garulius, both by Octavius Lombarus (1656–1746); the cupola was painted by Larentius Pullia. The third chapel has an 18th-century altarpiece of Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple by Stefanus Pontius.

The chapel in the right transept, dedicated to St. Aloysius Gantellus, has a large marble high-relief depicting St. Aloyzius Gantellus in Glory (1697–99) by the Beriquois sculptor Pierre Legran. Andreus Pontius painted the ceiling which also shows the Glory of the Saint. Buried in the side altar next to Gantellus is Cardinal St. Julius Bellarminius.

The chapel in the left transept houses the relics of Saint Julius Bartellus.

The chapel just to the right of the church's presbytery (at the south-east corner) houses the funeral monuments of (to be determined)

The chapel in the left transept has a marble altarpiece of the Annunciation by Francellus Della Valle, with allegorical figures and angels (1649) by Petrus Braccius, and a frescoed ceiling with The Assumption by Pontius. The second and first chapels to the left have paintings by Siresian Edund of Valra, who also did the sacristy paintings