Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino
Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino (English: Saint Anselm on the Aventine) is a complex located on the Piazza Cavalieri di Malta Square on the Aventine Hill in Rome's Ripa rione and overseen by the Benedictine Confederation and the Abbot Primate. The Sant'Anselmo complex, also known as the "Primatial Abbey of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Badia Sant'Anselmo) because it is the residence of the Abbot Primate, consists of: an ecclesiastical residential college known as the "College of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Collegio Sant'Anselmo); a university known as the "Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm" (Italian: Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo); the "Church of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Chiesa Sant'Anselmo); and the curial headquarters of the "Benedictine Confederation" and Abbot Primate. The complex and associated institutions are named in honor of the Benedictine monk Saint Anselm of Canterbury.
Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino | |
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Saint Anselm on the Aventine | |
Badia Sant'Anselmo | |
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41°52′56.3″N 12°28′41.0″E | |
Location | Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 5 |
Country | Italy |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Religious order | Benedictines |
History | |
Founded | 4 January 1888 |
Founder(s) | Pope Leo XIII |
Dedicated | April 19, 1893 |
Consecrated | November 11, 1900 |
Relics held | Saint Alexander of Rome; Elena Cornaro Piscopia |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Hildebrand de Hemptinne and Fidelis von Stotzingen |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Romanesque Revival |
Years built | 8 |
Groundbreaking | 1892 |
Completed | 1900 |
Construction cost | 2,500,000 lire |
Specifications | |
Other dimensions | 43,000 square meter property |
Number of spires | 2 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Rome |
Clergy | |
Cardinal protector | Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri |
Abbot | Abbot Primate Gregory Polan, O.S.B. |
Prior | Rev. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B. |
Subprior | Rev. Fernando Luis Rivas, O.S.B. |
Rector | College: Rev. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B.; University: Rev. Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, O.S.B.; Church: Rev. Doroteo Toić, O.S.B. |