Forum for Historical Research since 1888
Located next to St. Peter's Basilica, the Campo Santo Teutonico is the retreat of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG), the well-known academic centre for research into the history of the Church and Christian cultural heritage.
The Foundation for the Promotion of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society with an endowment of 350,000 is located at the Foundation Centre Fundraising of the Archdiocese of Cologne. In the offices there, the Institute floats at the top of the foundation cloud (foto). The Foundation Centre also advises on the planning of bequests for the benefit of the Roman Institute.
The birthplace of Joseph Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn in the diocese of Passau is hosting a special exhibition of works by the artist Georg Ettl (1940-2014). The programme from April to September includes talks and lectures with Father Eberhard Gemmingen and Msgr Dr Thomas Frauenlob, among others.
From April to July, a lecture series on Byzantium will be held at the University of Göttingen. Lectures will be given by Michael Grünbart, Philipp Niewöhner, Caroline Macé, Armin Bergmeier and others.
A montage of four historical film clips from the Italian film studio Luce about Rome and the opening of the Second Vatican Council shows impressive testimonies of a world event as if from another star. Important personalities of the persecuted church such as Karol Wojtyla and Stefan Wyszynski stand up in the flesh. Unfortunately, the camera pans just miss Campo Santo Teutonico several times. It is astonishing that when thousands of bishops marched in to open the Council on 11 October 1962, St Peter's Square was not even half full.
Dr Ignacio García has created the 400th post on the RIGG's Instagram channel "rigg1888". The channel does not so much inform about the Institute as - every two days - about new impressions and events from the Roman history, intellectual and art world. It combines this with many clever and often remote hints as well as practical tips.
The oldest German research institution in Rome, the German Archaeological Institute, is about to move back into the Via Sardegna, where it will move into its familiar but thoroughly renovated rooms. Ortwin Dally and Ines Balzer have published a vivid booklet on "current research - history - perspectives" (2022, 2nd edition). It contains articles on the Institute's changing buildings, the archive and photo library, research projects (including Norbert Zimmermann on Christian archaeology) and the promotion of young researchers.
Silvio Galizia (1925-1989) from the Swiss canton of Aargau carried out the new construction of the Campo Santo Teutonico from 1962 to 1966, but beyond that he built numerous churches and priests' colleges in Rome since the 1950s. 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth, and to mark the occasion, the family is dedicating itself to an appreciation and reappraisal of the estate of the great architect. From my own experience, I can say that Galizia had the impressive ability to think not only in modern terms but also in practical terms, and to conceive the interior generously even under the tightest of constraints, designing it, as it were, into the surrounding landscape..
Stefan Heid will be giving a lecture at the Dahlem Forum Bernhardinum on 4 April at 7.30 p.m. on "Refrigeria, agape, house churches - what all there was or wasn't in the early church". A zoom-transmission is not planned.
Location: Königin-Luise-Str. 33
Deadline: 30. April
Various institutions invite you to an International Conference on "Church in Transition. Organisational and institutional foundations of the integration of refugees and displaced persons 1945-1963" in Regensburg from 18 to 20 September 2023.
There is now a film summary of the Requiem for Pope Benedict XVI at Campo Santo Teutonico on 10 February 2023.
Thema: "Ein Hauch von Rom: Klostergründungen und Pilgerwege im Bistum Passau im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert"
Dr Christian Handschuh is Professor of Church History and Christian Identities at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Passau.
The lecture will take place as part of the conference "Rome as Sacred Topography from the Middle Ages to Modern Times" (at RIGG, 23-25 March).
Location. Aula Pope Benedict XVI (Campo Santo Teutonico)
Start: 6 pm
For participation via Zoom please contact Stefan Heid.
Deadline: 20 April
The Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology invites applications for the chair of Topography of the Orbis christianus antiquus (succession of Philippe Pergola).
Prof. Dr. Christian Hannick (Würzburg) will give a lecture on 23 March at 4 pm at the Oriental Institut in Rome on the topic of “L’innografia bizantina come componente della liturgia. Problemi della ricerca filologica e musicologica”.
14th February, 7.30 pm: "Die Johanniter: drei Momente im Werden einer katholischen Hospitalgemeinschaft auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Erzbistums Berlin", Lecture at the Diocesan Historical Society in the Archbishopric of Berlin - Parish of Holy Family, Wichertstr. 23, 10439 Berlin.
23rd February, 6 pm: "Raíz romana de la pintura sacra de Juan Cordero" - Talk with the Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Autónoma de México, Angélica Velázquez Guadarrma, and with the Mexican Ambassador to the Holy See, Alberto Barranco - via Zoom (Link).
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