"La croce e 'l Crocifisso Sia nel mio cor scolpito, Ed io sia sempre affisso In gloria ov' egli è ito!"[D] [Footnote D: Jesus, best comfort of my soul, Be thou my only love, My sacred saviour from my sins, My door to heaven above!

S. Croce is the Westminster Abbey of Florence.

S. Croce is its immediate religious rival, for it was because the Dominicans had S. Maria Novella, begun in 1278, that several years later the Franciscans determined to have an equally important church and built S. Croce.