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
Benedict of Nursia ( la, Benedictus Nursiae; it, Benedetto da Norcia; 2 March AD 480 – 21 March AD 548) was an Italian Christian monk, writer, and theologian who is venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orient ...
.
History
San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo was built in 1916–1925.
Don Giovanni Gregorucci helped Jews to hide in the church during
The Holocaust. The building was damaged during the 1944
Liberation of Rome.
Ferruccio Ferrazzi
Ferruccio Ferrazzi (15 March 1891 – 8 December 1978 in Rome) was an Italian painter and sculptor, as well as a professor at Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome.)
Life
Born in Rome, Ferrazzi was the eldest son of the sculptor Stanislao Ferrazzi. In ...
painted five
''tondi'' and an
altarpiece
An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...
for San Benedetto in 1949.
Pope John Paul II visited on 14 February 1988. On 28 June 1988, it was made a
titular church to be held by a
cardinal-deacon.
;Cardinal-Protectors
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Achille Silvestrini (1988–2019); promoted to
cardinal-priest in 1999 but remained as titulus of San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo ''
pro hac vice''
References
External links
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Titular churches
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1925
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Rome Q. X Ostiense