According to an article published in 1900 in the Italian Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, the particular use Boniface had in mind for it was that of “glorifying together all the martyrs of the Christian sphere, or rather, all the saints, but first and foremost the Virgin Mother of God. ”
सामान्य युग ६०९ में पोप बॉनिफस चौथे ने इस मंदिर को एक “ईसाई ” चर्च के तौर पर समर्पित कर दिया ।