1903/13 Tullio Passarelli (1869/1941)
for the Congregation Company of Mary of the Missionary Fathers of
Monfort
Elegant
Romanesque Revival style
“Overall,
the building is quite balanced and pleasing, more than it could be inferred
with a fleeting first approach, even if the position next to a sizable modern
office building certainly doesn't help this perception” (Massimo Alemanno)
Stained
glass windows in the NAVE “Stories of the Old
and New Testament with references to the Virgin Mary” and in the APSE “Stories of St. Louis
Marie Grignion from Monfort” by the master Belgian glassmaker Joseph Osterrath (1845/98)
Marble
group with “Mary Queen of Hearts
with Child and St. Louis Marie Grignion from Monfort and the angel Gabriel” sculpted from a single block of
Carrara marble and marble slabs with reliefs “Birth of Christ” and “Crucifixion”
by Paolo Bartolini (1859/1930)
St. Louis
Marie Grignion from Monfort was a Breton missionary who lived in the
seventeenth century, author of the Treatise on True Devotion to Mary,
from which inspiration was taken for the name of the church
WOODEN
CHOIR with “Virtues of the Virgin Mary” and “Rebecca and Jacob” and ROUND
PANELS CARVED IN THE PEWS with “Symbols of the Virgin Mary” 1916 by Oreste Alfonzi
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