Santa Maria Immacolata e San Giovanni Berchmans
Santa Maria Immacolata e San Giovanni Berchmans is a Roman Catholic parish and titular church ( Immacolata al Tiburtino ) in the Tiburtino district in Rome .
history
In 1904 Pope Pius X asked the Josephinians of St. Leonardo Murialdo in Venice to set up a branch in the eastern station district of Rome, where there were many neglected street boys. The church of the new convent was designed by the papal architect Costantino Schneider . She received the double patronage of the Blessed Mother, received without original sin, and of Jan Berchmans , who was canonized in 1888 ; Belgian Catholics donated most of the construction costs. The consecration took place on March 13, 1909 by the Archbishop of Mechelen Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier . The community of priests has been called Opera San Pio X since the canonization of Pius X.
The church survived the bombing of the district in 1944 undamaged. On April 28, 1969, Paul VI. them to the titular church.
Building
The aligned to the Northwest Church is a neo-Romanesque , cruciform brick - Basilica . In 1928/29 she received the campanile , which is modeled on the bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica . The interior decoration was created by Mario Prayer between 1946 and 1954.
Cardinal priest
- Peter Thomas McKeefry (1969–1973)
- Reginald John Delargey (1976-1979)
- Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (1979-2008)
- Raymundo Damasceno Assis (since 2010)
Web links
- History (operasanpiox.org, Italian)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 49.6 " N , 12 ° 30 ′ 52.9" E