OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH OF THE MARIST FATHERS IN ROME.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 12 January 1899, Page 6

OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH OF THE MARIST FATHERS IN ROME.

551Jrif tl rr ° m v R ° man r news PPaPersP a Pers that on the 17th of last November the new church of the Marist Fathers in Via Cernaia was solemnly dedicated and blessed by Cardinal Parocchi, Vicar-General clrfil H " line / S - as« S ted by Monsignore Ciocci, Papal Master of S/riS? 1 i ? Umb i e / ° f PrelateS and diß< "fished persons both clerical and lay from Rome and other places assisted at the ceremony; ainonar them the Superior-General of the Marists, the Very Rev. Anioiiy Martin, the Procurator-General of the Marists, Father Claudius Nj.-oler, the Superior of the Marist house in Rue de Vangirard. lan*. a;,d n.any oiher Fathers who had come purposely from trance to ass,. t at the dedication of the new church. It was dedicate to Our L ,dy of the U-^ary, whose picture had bS? exprc^ly brought f.oi.i i) c Sanctuary de Pompei, where it was held in yon, ration. 1h - church stands m Via Oorn.-ua near the Ministero delle Finauze and vv,!l |, c a boon to the locality, where a church was badly needed, and must b t - o.ne a new centre of piety and devotion. Of sufficiently larg, di,, en<ion N the church, in its simple and elegant form, ha.s a \ ciy de^.tional aspect. Besides the mam altar in the apse it has eiyht other iltars. The decorative portion ot the chapels U not yet completed, but the apse and principal nave have b-en adorned with pamiinirs by Arturo Gueniot vv-Kh great d-licaoy. harmony, and es(iuiMte taste ; the distinguished artist has reproJuctd on the ceiling O i the- nave the fifteen mysteries <.t the lto^ry, and on the walls of the apse the -lories of God and of the Blessed Virgin. Aft- r the didicatiou, at the afternoon service an e\, n ne t di^co iw was delivered by Monsif-nore M.irini, Sostituto' del ur vi and tin ceremonies concluded with the solemn blessin^ given to the crowd ot devoiu worshippers who had come to honour our Lady o l the Rusiry in her new church.