Santa Maria Regina Apostolorum
Santa Maria Regina Apostolorum (Italian: Santa Maria Regina degli Apostoli ; Latin: Reginae Apostolorum ) is a titular church in Rome .
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The church is located in the Roman quarter of Della Vittoria . It was designed by the architect Luigi Francassini Guidi completed in 1936 and added an existing monastery of the Congregation of the Pallottine .
The parish was founded by the decree Divinitus collata by Cardinal Vicar Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani on April 18, 1936 and at the same time entrusted to the Pallottines for use. The church is named after Maria , Queen of the Apostles , from the Italian Santa Maria Regina degli Apostoli ; On the Saturday before Pentecost, the Pallottine communities around the world celebrate their patron saint Queen of the Apostles .
Under the title Queen of the Apostles , Vincenzo Pallotti had the Italian engraver and painter Serafino Cesaretti paint a Pentecost picture in 1848 that shows Mary with two other women and the apostles as they all receive the Holy Spirit . He expresses that all believers - lay people and priests - are equally gifted in the spirit and sent to bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ. The model for the picture was an engraving by the German painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck . The original of the picture is in this church.
Pope Paul VI elevated it to the title church of the Roman Catholic Church on February 5, 1965 .
The church is located on Piazza d'Armi at Via Giuseppe Ferrari 1 in the Roman quarter of Della Vittoria .
Cardinal priest
- Ermenegildo Florit (February 22, 1965 - December 8, 1985)
- Giuseppe Maria Sensi (June 22, 1987 - July 26, 2001)
- Virgilio Noè (February 26, 2002 - July 24, 2011)
- John Tong Hon , since February 18, 2012
Web links
- Entry on Regina Apostolorum on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on April 15, 2016.
- Entry Santa Maria Regina Apostolorum on vicariatusurbis.org
Individual evidence
- ^ "The picture 'Queen of the Apostles' and its specifically Pallottine iconography" , pallottinerinnen.info, accessed on April 14, 2016
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 49 " N , 12 ° 27 ′ 52.7" E