Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio

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Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio

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Patronage : Heart of jesus
Consecration date : May 14, 1887
Rank: Basilica minor
Order : Salesians of Don Bosco
Cardinal Deacon : Giuseppe Versaldi
Parish : Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
Address: Via Marsala, 42
00185 Roma

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 '10 "  N , 12 ° 30' 9.5"  E

Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio ( Latin : Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu ad Castrum Praetorium ) is a Roman minor basilica near the Roma Termini train station in the Castro Pretorio district and titular church of the Roman Catholic Church.

history

Pope Pius IX. suggested in 1870 the settlement of a church in the gardens of the former villa of the Peretti di Montalto family. It was only on the initiative of Johannes Bosco in 1879 that the architect Francesco Vespignani was commissioned with the planning. The parish was founded on February 2, 1879. The church was founded in 1880 by Pope Leo XIII. commissioned and completed in 1887 and entrusted to the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco out of gratitude . On February 11, 1921, the church of Pope Benedict XV. raised to a minor basilica . On February 5, 1965, Pope Paul VI was appointed title church of the Roman Catholic Church .

Building

Interior to the altar

Sacro Cuore is a three-aisled basilica in neo-renaissance forms . The nave opens into a short transept, followed by the long choir with a round apse . The central nave has a coffered ceiling , the yokes of the side aisles are designed as chapels with altars and flat domes. The campanile stands in the north corner of the transept; it is crowned by a monumental statue of Christ.

Center of the Salesians

The Sacred Heart Basilica and the surrounding buildings and facilities form the center of the Salesians in Rome. In the large building complex on Via Marsala on the Esquiline hill , besides the church and the social center, there is also the Salesian Provincial Office for Italy and the Order's coordination center for Italian youth work. From the beginning of the 1960s until the completion of the new university building in 1965, the complex on Via Marsala housed the provisional Roman seat of the Pontifical Atheneum Salesianum ( Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano ), the international religious school of the Salesians, so that during the years of the Second Vatican Council numerous young religious priests (including Tarcisio Bertone ) studied here and witnessed the upheavals in the church.

Cardinal deacons

Web links

Commons : Sacro Cuore di Gesù (Rome)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sacro Cuore di Gesù (Italian)
  2. ^ A Salesian for Pope Benedict. Interview with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone by Gianni Cardinale. In: 30giorni No. 08/2006 (August 2006), viewed on October 18, 2017.