Thursday, March 22, 2018

St. ALPHONSUS DE LIGUORI

S. ALFONSO DEI LIGUORI
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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