Vienna - Stanislaus-Kostka-Kapelle

This chapel in the courtyard of the Jesuit presbytery is decorated in gold and silver. Until 1582 the chapel was a single room in the house called "Zur goldenen Schlange" (The Golden Snake), where the Polish Jesuit Stanislaus Kostka lived between 1564 and 1567. After the occurrence of two miracles the room was converted into a chapel and given rich stucco ornamentation in 1742 in memory of Stanislaus Kostka who was canonized in 1726. The altar- piece "St Stanislaus Kostka taking Communion with the Angels" was painted by Franz Anton Stecher c. 1840.