The Church of the Gesù is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Catholic religious order. Officially named Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù, its façade is "the first truly baroque façade", introducing the baroque style into architecture. The church served as a model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in Central Europe and in Portuguese colonies. Its paintings in the nave, crossing, and side chapels became models for art in Jesuit churches throughout Italy and Europe, as well as those of other orders. The Church of the Gesù is located at the Piazza del Gesù in Rome, and is one of the great 17th century preaching churches built by Counter-Reformation orders like the Jesuits in the Centro Storico.
James Francis Stafford is an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as major penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary from 2003 to 2009.
Thomas Stafford Williams was a New Zealand cardinal in the Catholic Church and the fifth Archbishop of Wellington from 1979 to 2005.
John Joseph Wright was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1969 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.
Virgilio Noè was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991.
Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is a titular church in Piazza Euclide, Rome. It was built by the architect Armando Brasini (1879–1965). Its construction began in 1923 with the design of a Greek cross inscribed in a circle with an articulated facade, and completed before 1936, the year in which it was made a parish church and granted to the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Sacred Immaculate Heart of Mary, usually known as the Claretian Missionaries. A grand dome was planned, but never realized; a smaller drum was completed in 1951.
Sacro Cuore di Gesù al Castro Pretorio is a Catholic parish and titular church in Rome, Italy, the mother church of the Salesian Order.
Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola is a titular church in Rome. It is located in via Luigi Perna.
Primavalle is the 27th quartiere of Rome, identified by the initials Q. XXVII. It is part of the Municipio XIV.
Baron Maximilian Louis Hubert Egon Vincent Marie Joseph von Fürstenberg-Stammheim was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and was Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Mario Luigi Ciappi, O.P. was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as personal theologian to five popes from 1955 to 1989, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1977.
Sacro Cuore di Gesù Agonizzante is a modern parish and titular church located at Via Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna 70 in Vitinia, a suburb of Rome.
The Church of Jesus the Divine Worker is a titular church in Rome, in the Portuense district, on Via Oderisi da Gubbio.
The church of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a place of worship of Rome, in the Appio Latino district, in via Gallia.
The church of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario is a place of Catholic worship in Rome, in the suburbs Della Vittoria, in the square Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The church of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a place of Catholic worship in Rome, seat of the parish, in the Tor di Quinto neighborhood, in Via Flaminia.
San Giovanni Crisostomo al Monte Sacro Alto is a church in Rome named in honour of John Chrysostom, in the district Monte Sacro Alto, Via Emilio De Marchi, off the Via Nomentana.
San Pio X alla Balduina is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in Rome, dedicated to Pope Pius X.
San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in southern Rome, dedicated to Francis Xavier.
Nostra Signora di Coromoto is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in southwest Rome, dedicated to Our Lady of Coromoto.
