Highlights from the cultural world of Rome
There is no end to the celebrations in Rome. On 22-23 January, a conference will be held in the Vatican Museums to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Ercole Consalvi (1757-1824). It is being organised by the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, which is now under the direction of Marek Inglot SJ.
The Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music is joining in the jubilee culture: on the occasion of Max Reger's 150th birthday, organ concerts will be held in the Sala Accademica in Piazza Navona (Piazza S. Agostino 20a) on 12, 19 and 26 January and on 2 February under the patronage of the German Embassy to the Holy See. Father Robert Mehlhart OP has been the director of the institute since last year.
When the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Pietà built a church on the Campo Santo Teutonico, which was enormous by the standards of the time, just 50 years after it was founded and consecrated it in 1500, it could not have known that this church would still occupy art historians 500 years later.
Stefan von Kempis begins his report on the impressive Christmas concert by the Venice Symphony Orchestra organised by the Vatican Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Foundation with the words: "It was almost like old times: A concert in honour of Benedict XVI took place in the church of the "Campo Santo Teutonico" at the Vatican on Wednesday evening".
The Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology is offering its books at a discount for Christmas..
A Deutschlandfunk podcast is dedicated to St Peter and his tomb in Rome. The panellists are Matthias Simperl (Augsburg), Stefan Heid (Rome), Georg Satzinger. (Bonn) and Matthias von Hellfeld.
Book on the topic: Petrus und Paulus in Rom
A Christmas concert in memory of Pope Benedict XVI will take place on 20 December at 5 pm in the church of Campo Santo Teutonico. The concert is organised by the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI.
The Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, in collaboration with other institutions, is organising a study day at Campo Santo Teutonico in memory of the German Pope, who died in Rome on New Year's Eve 2022.
Following various archaeological explorations carried out by the Franciscan conventuals in the important early Christian Church of the Twelve Apostles, the redesigned altar area, which allows a view of the early Christian altar, will be presented on 1 December at 4 pm (until 6 pm).
Bullettino vaticano del 10 novembre 2023:
The Rectors and Principals of the six Pontifical Academic Institutions administratively dependent on the Holy See (Pontifical Lateran University, Pontifical Urbanian University, Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family)
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
