Church of the Savior and Saint Alfonso Liguori

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Church of the Savior and Saint Alfonso Liguori
Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore e di Sant'Alfonso de 'Liguori
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The Roman Catholic Church of the Savior and Saint Alfons of Liguori ( Italian Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore e di Sant'Alfonso , usually Sant'Alfonso ( all'Esquilino ) for short ) is the church of the Generalate of the Redemptorists and the Accademia Alfonsiana in the Roman district Esquilino . The neo-Gothic towerless basilica was built in 1855-1859 according to plans by the British George Wigley . Pope John XXIII raised it to title church in 1960 . It houses the original of the world-famous miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help .

history

Sant'Alfonso was the first Roman church in neo-Gothic style and one of the last to be built under papal rule . In 1853 the Redemptorists decided to move their generalate from Pagani to Rome. The church was completed in 1859, the completion of the extensive order buildings took until the end of the century. In 1898–1900 the three-door porch was added to the church. Pope Pius IX gave the icon of Perpetual Help . the Redemptorists in 1867. From here it was distributed in innumerable copies and reproductions.

Architecture and equipment

The Church of the Redeemer and St. Alphonsus is a three-aisled basilica with an ambulatory choir and triforium - galleries based on the model of northern Italian mendicant churches . The building material is brick with travertine elements . Groin vaults , pillars, walls, choir arch and apse are decorated with multicolored figural and ornamental painting and mosaics, etc. a. by Max Schmalzl . The miraculous image is centrally located above the high altar .

Cardinal priest

Web links

Commons : Church of the Savior and Saint Alfonso Liguori  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ possibly identical to George J. Wigley († 1866 in Rome), cf. Edwin Burton:  George J. Wigley . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 15, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1912.

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 44.9 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 1.2 ″  E