1855/59 George Wigley (?/1866) on the site of the
seventeenth-century Villa Caetani
Modified in
the years 1898/1900 by Maximilian Schmalzl (1850/1930)
First
example of Gothic revival in Rome
S. Alfonso
Liguori (1696/1787) was a bishop from Naples, intellectual and theologian,
founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer or of the Redemptorists.
He was proclaimed a saint in 1839
He was also
a musician and composer of songs including the popular Christmas carol From
Starry Skies Thou Comest. He is buried in Pagani in the Salerno province
Paintings
by Eugenio Cisterna (1862/1933)
On the main
altar there is the venerated “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” painted on board in
the fifteenth century by an anonymous artist of the
Cretan school
Attached
to the church PALACE OF THE REDEMPTORISTS HEADQUARTERS 1934 by Alessandro Villa in Neo-Baroque style
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