San Girolamo a Corviale

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St. Jerome in Corviale
San Girolamo a Corviale (in Italian)
Sancti Hieronymi in Corviale (in Latin)
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41°51′09″N12°25′20″E / 41.8526°N 12.4221°E / 41.8526; 12.4221 Coordinates: 41°51′09″N12°25′20″E / 41.8526°N 12.4221°E / 41.8526; 12.4221
LocationVia dei Buonvisi 3, Rome
Country Italy
Denomination Roman Catholic
Tradition Roman Rite
History
Status Titular church
Dedication Jerome
Architecture
Architect(s) Francesco Fornari
Architectural type Church
Style Modernist
Administration
Province Rome
DistrictLazio
Clergy
Cardinal protector Luis Hector Villalba

The Church of San Girolamo in Corviale is a church in Rome, in the suburb Gianicolense, by way of Buonvisi.

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It was built in the twentieth century by the architect Francesco Fornari. It contains an important and venerated icon of the Crucifixion, with the depiction of Christ on the cross and to the sides the figures of Mary and John, typical of Eastern Christian iconography is the presence at the foot of the cross of a miniature cave and the Adam's skull.

The church is home parish, erected March 9, 1960, with the decree of the Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara Quotidianis curis.

Pope Francis created it as a cardinal title of San Girolamo a Corviale and Luis Hector Villalba as its first titular.

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