The church of Church of Jesus the Divine Teacher at the Pineta Sacchetti (''Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti'') is a titular church in Rome, in the Trionfale district, in Via Vittorio Montiglio. The name refers to

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as the Divine Teacher, and to Pineta Sacchetti (part of

Pineto Regional Park The Pineto Regional Park is a protected natural area of Lazio, Italy, instituted in 1987. It has an area of approximately 240 hectares, which includes Pineta Sacchetti. The park is in the northwest area of the city of Rome, in Municipio XIX, sha ...

), named for the Sacchetti, a powerful family of the medieval period, and its groves of stone pines.

History

Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti was built between 1966 and 1967 by the architect Carlo Bevilacqua and solemnly inaugurated by Cardinal Luigi Traglia with consecrated September 30, 1967. The church is home parish, established March 2, 1964 by the vicar Cardinal Clemente Micara with the decree Percrescente de die and initially entrusted to the priests of the diocese of Brescia and then, from 1978 to the Roman diocesan clergy. It also is home to the cardinal's title "Jesus the Divine Master at the Pineta Sacchetti", founded by Pope Paul VI April 29, 1969: it was the pope who wanted this title because of the presence in the parish territory of the Faculty of Medicine of the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

Thomas Stafford Williams Thomas Stafford Williams (born 20 March 1930) is a cardinal in the Catholic Church, and before his retirement in 2005 was the fifth Archbishop of Wellington. Early life and education Williams was born in Wellington, New Zealand and educated at ...

is the incumbent cardinal-protector since 1988.

Art and Architecture

The church is circular, the porphyry pavement edged and slightly downhill towards the center from which rises with three steps the presbytery, with the centrality of the altar and the ambo of wider dimension that manifests the table of the word. Behind the altar, the seat of white marble, which incorporates the circularity of the presbytery, which opens with a large sunburst on the assembly. The floor to venesiana and striking pink. The large wall of the presbytery background has a large mosaic which shows three images the figure of Jesus the Divine Master: to the right the Master 12 years that dialogues with the doctors in the temple, left the Master of the Beatitudes and the center Christ the Servant on the cross who wears the white dalmatic, to indicate how the Master teaches his people to the service of the Father.

Cardinal-priests

Pope Paul VI established Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti as a titular church on 30 April 1969. *

John Joseph Wright John Joseph Wright (July 18, 1909 – August 10, 1979) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1969 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969. Bio ...

, 30 April 1969 appointed – 10 August 1979 died *

, 2 February 1983 appointed – present

References

Pope Paul VI established as titular church

External links

Gesú Divin Maestro alla Pineta Saccheti
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti Titular churches Roman Catholic churches completed in 1967 Rome Q. XIV Trionfale 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy