 The edifice received the title of Parish Church on March 19, 1914 by Pope Pius X, through the apostolic constitution ""Quod iam pridem"", thus receiving the rights and incomes of the suppressed Parish of Santi Quirico e Giulitta in the Forum of Augustus.Since 1985 it is a titular church with the name "Sant'Elena fuori Porta Prenestina".On the railway protective wall, close to the crossing between Via del Mandrione and via Casilina, a travertine cross commemorates the vicar Raffaele Melis, killed on August 13, 1943 by the second bombing of Rome – that struck the train of the former Rome–Fiuggi railway, full of people repatriating from Africa – while giving aid to wounded people.