San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo | |
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Church of Saint Benedict Outside Saint Paul's Gate | |
Chiesa di San Benedetto al Gazometro | |
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41°52′17″N 12°28′43″E / 41.8715°N 12.4786°E | |
Location | Via del Gazometro 23, Q. Ostiense, Rome |
Country | Italy |
Language(s) | Italian |
Denomination | Catholic |
Tradition | Roman Rite |
Website |
parrocchiasanbenedetto |
History | |
Status | titular church, parish church |
Founded | 1912 |
Founder(s) | Pope Pius X |
Dedication | Benedict of Nursia |
Architecture | |
Functional status | active |
Architect(s) | Clemente Busiri Vici [1] [2] |
Architectural type | Rationalist |
Groundbreaking | 1916 |
Completed | 1925 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Rome |
San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church on the southern edge of Rome, dedicated to Saint Benedict of Nursia. [3] [4] [5]
San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo was built in 1916–1925. [6] Don Giovanni Gregorucci helped Jews to hide in the church during The Holocaust. [7] The building was damaged during the 1944 Liberation of Rome. [8] [9] Ferruccio Ferrazzi painted five tondi and an altarpiece for San Benedetto in 1949. [10]
Pope John Paul II visited on 14 February 1988. [11] On 28 June 1988, it was made a titular church to be held by a cardinal-deacon. [12] [13]
San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo | |
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Church of Saint Benedict Outside Saint Paul's Gate | |
Chiesa di San Benedetto al Gazometro | |
| |
41°52′17″N 12°28′43″E / 41.8715°N 12.4786°E | |
Location | Via del Gazometro 23, Q. Ostiense, Rome |
Country | Italy |
Language(s) | Italian |
Denomination | Catholic |
Tradition | Roman Rite |
Website |
parrocchiasanbenedetto |
History | |
Status | titular church, parish church |
Founded | 1912 |
Founder(s) | Pope Pius X |
Dedication | Benedict of Nursia |
Architecture | |
Functional status | active |
Architect(s) | Clemente Busiri Vici [1] [2] |
Architectural type | Rationalist |
Groundbreaking | 1916 |
Completed | 1925 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Rome |
San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church on the southern edge of Rome, dedicated to Saint Benedict of Nursia. [3] [4] [5]
San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo was built in 1916–1925. [6] Don Giovanni Gregorucci helped Jews to hide in the church during The Holocaust. [7] The building was damaged during the 1944 Liberation of Rome. [8] [9] Ferruccio Ferrazzi painted five tondi and an altarpiece for San Benedetto in 1949. [10]
Pope John Paul II visited on 14 February 1988. [11] On 28 June 1988, it was made a titular church to be held by a cardinal-deacon. [12] [13]