Highlights from the cultural world of Rome
A few months ago, Paul Badde and Stefan Heid spoke in the former dining room of Campo Santo Teutonico (now Charlemagne's Hall) about the ‘Hero of Campo Santo’, the Irish curia employee Hugh O'Flaherty, who helped countless Jews to escape from the Nazis in 1943/44. EWTN has now made a film about it.
By Nikolas Möller
Until 28 February 2025, you can visit an exhibition on early Christianity in Jordan at the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome. In fact, it is worth bearing in mind that there were also sites of the New Testament in Jordan - for example the baptism of Christ in the Jordan, which is thought to have taken place in Al-Maghtas. The subtitle of the exhibition proudly reads: ‘Jordan: Dawn of Christianity’.
From 17 to 19 March, the Villa Massimo in Rome will host a wide-ranging conference on modern German medieval studies, which is likely to rekindle interest in the subject. Participants include the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the DHI. Speakers include Martin Baumeister, Tobias Daniels and Klaus Herbers.
In an interview with Athinea Andryszczak from k-TV, Stefan Heid from the Santa Maria dell'Anima College gives a historical context to the Holy Year 2025.
A few days before the start of the Holy Year 2025, a new museum tour was opened in the papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Polo Museale Liberiano, under the direction of Dr Andreas Raub, consultant for art history at the RIGG, has thus undergone an impressive expansion and renewal.
On 10 December, the joint celebration of the Pontifical Commission for Christian Archaeology and the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the ‘Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana’ took place in the Palace of the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology (via Napoleone III, 1).
The Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology is clearing its warehouses: all books at half price until January! Orders to
The ecumenical study course, which was ‘outsourced’ to Rome for a second time following the Covid crisis due to the Gaza war, is expected to return to Jerusalem at the Dormition Abbey at the turn of the year. A modified programme was carried out in Rome. The RIGG was also able to welcome the students to a lecture on the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome in the course of church history.
On 4 December at 3.30 pm, our Directorate member Prof. Dr Michael Matheus (Mainz) Prof. Dr Michael Matheus (Mainz) will be speaking at ‘La Nuvola’ in Rome on the subject of ‘Ninfa e la misura del mondo - percezioni e narrazioni tra scienza, letteratura e belle arti’
On 10 December at 5 p.m. in the large auditorium of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, a ceremony will be held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, founded in 1924 and probably the most important journal in this field. On this occasion, Paolo Liverani (Florence) will present the anniversary issue (2024, no. 2), which is entirely dedicated to this occasion.
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