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Chiesa di San Filippo Neri in Eurosia

Historic site · Ostiense, Italy

A parish church on via delle Sette Chiese, brick outside with a portico and a campanile at the side. On the trabeation is the Gospel line «Venite a me voi tutti che siete affaticati ed oppressi ed io vi ristorero», and at the top of the facade «D.O.M. in honorem S. Philippi Nerii A.D. MCMLII». Inside are three aisles on stone columns and a fibreglass statue of the saint flanked by portraits of Cesare Baronio and John Henry Newman; a mural of Filippo Neri was painted on the flank in 1996.

History

It was built between 1952 and 1955 to designs by Pier Luigi Maruffi, at the suggestion of Giovanni Battista Montini, with the benefactors Tommaso and Irene Bradley. Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara erected the parish on 20 December 1952 by the decree Mirabili sollicitudine, and it is entrusted to and owned by the Oratorian Congregation. Paul VI created the cardinalatial title on 7 June 1967, visited on 19 February 1967, and John Paul II came on 23 February 1982.

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Via delle Sette Chiese, Roma RM

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