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The Cappella di San Zenone (Chapel of Saint Zeno) is a lateral chapel and part of the Basilica of Santa Prassede, in Rome. The chapel was built on the orders of Pope Paschal I in the ninth-century. It is remarkable, both for its architecture which is a unique example of Carolingian Renaissance style and that it is decorated with exquisite early Christian Byzantine mosaics. There is a reliquary, which is believed to contain, a fragment of the column against which Christ was flogged and is thought to have been brought to the chapel from Jerusalem in 1223 under Pope Honorius III.
When she catalogued the Cheney Collection in 1992, Suzanne Zack reveals that on the back of the original mount it was inscribed in ink:
‘a fragment of the column to which Christ was attached during the flagellation is
incrusted in the wall above the altar, and Colonna Chapel in Sta Prasseole, Rome.’
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