The Church of St. Joseph is a church in Rome, in Primavalle district via Boccea.
History
It was built in 1970 by architect Ildo Avetta and dedicated to St. Joseph Marello.
The church was erected as a parish on June 19, 1961 by decree of the Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara Quotidianis curis, and entrusted to the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph d'Asti. It has been the seat of the cardinal's title of San Giuseppe all'Aurelio since 1991.
Description
The facade is divided into three sections by
pilasters
In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wall ...
made of
tufa
Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes. Geothermally heated hot springs sometimes produce similar (but less porous) carbonate deposits, which are known as travertine. ...
concrete. The entrance is topped by a
ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain ...
depicting St. Joseph and Child with Angels.
The interior has a
nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
with side aisles. In the
apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...
is a tapestry depicting St. Joseph and Child, completed in 1915, from the Restoration Laboratory of the Vatican Tapestries, where he lay abandoned. There is a
Via Crucis
The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The stations grew out of imitati ...
which was made by Vasco Nasorri as well as a great ceramics (1986) and the apse, with the representation of an illuminated manuscript opened. At the main altar is a Last Supper by E. Hortis in 1981.
List of Cardinal Protectors
*
Georg Sterzinsky
Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky (9 February 1936 – 30 June 2011) was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop of Berlin.
Early life
Sterzinsky was born in Warlack (earlier also Wurlacken, Warlaucken, now Worławki, Olsz ...
28 June 1991 - 30 June 2011
*
Gerald Lacroix 22 February 2014 - present
References
External links
San Giuseppe
{{Commons cat, San Giuseppe all'Aurelio (Rome)
Titular churches
Rome Q. XXVII Primavalle
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1961
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy