The Council of Trent saw the birth of numerous religious orders and movements interpreting the internal-reform requirements of the Catholic Church.
It was within the Jesuit Order, as in the Theatine and other orders that the model of the Counter-Reformation Church found inside and outside Europe was developed. Vignola’s Church of the Gesù in Rome, with its marked and wide longitudinal layout, would become an example of the perfect functional combination of structure and purpose in holy buildings, highlighting the distinction between the space dedicated to the devotion of the faithful and the space dedicated to the liturgy.