San Giuseppe all'Aurelio

San Giuseppe all'Aurelio
St. Joseph at Aurelio (in English) Sancti Iosephi in regione Aurelia (in Latin)
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41°54′12″N 12°24′46″E
Location	Via Giuseppe Marello 5/13, Rome
Country	Italy
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Tradition	Roman Rite
History
Status	Titular church
Dedication	Saint Joseph
Architecture
Architect(s)	Ildo Avetta
Architectural type	Church
Style	Modernist
Groundbreaking	1961
Administration
District	Lazio
Province	Rome
Clergy
Cardinal protector	Gerald Lacroix, ISPX

Altar

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 made of tufa concrete. The entrance is topped by a ceramic depicting St. Joseph and Child with Angels. The interior has a nave with side aisles. In the apse 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 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 28 June 1991 - 30 June 2011
• Gerald Lacroix 22 February 2014 - present

External links

• San Giuseppe ^{[self-published]}