Highlights from the cultural world of Rome
The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology will open the new academic year on 6 November at 9.30 a.m. with Holy Mass in S. Prassede with Grand Chancellor Cardinal Mendonca. Afterwards the book "Cento anni del Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana" will be presented. 3 November is the last day of enrolment as a new student. The printed programme contains all the information, including the chronicle of the past year.
The new President of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences is the Jesuit Marek Inglot from the Gregorian University.
The new Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education is the Jesuit Antonio Spadaro of the "Civiltà Cattolica".
The papal delegate for the Urbaniana University is the former rector of the Lateran University Vincenzo Buonomo.
Deacon Zlatko Brauchler of the diocese Cassano, born into a Danube Swabian family, attended grammar school in Wolfratshausen (Bavaria), studied in Zagreb 2016-2018 and Rome and is a member of the RIGG. Cardinal Kurt Koch, also a member of the RIGG, will perform the ordination at St Peter's on 7 October.
The exhibition "Bronzo & Oro. Roma, Papa Innocenzo III: racconto immersivo di un capolavoro" in the Vittoriano (Piazza Venezia) will be open with free admission at the Vittoriano, in the Sala Zanardelli, until Sunday 1 October 2023.
From a letter written by Hubert Jedin to the Rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico Bernhard Hanssler on 10 April 1974:
RACTA III - the 3rd Doctoral Colloquium on Christian Archaeology - a student initiative - will take place in Rome from 5 to 7 February 2024. Those who would like to give a lecture must register by 10 September.
Dr Marco Aimone (Vercelli/Swindon) and prof. Stefan Heid (Rome) are offering a 10-hour course on liturgical devices in early church times. The course will take place on 4, 5, 6 and 18 December at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology.
Gabriele Castiglia, a member of the RIGG, was appointed as the new Associate Professor of Topography of the Christian Orbis at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology on 24 August. He succeeds Philippe Pergola, who retired in June.
Daniel Zucker, a member of the RIGG, will make his simple profession of vows to the Dominicans in S. Maria sopra Minerva on 8 September, the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, at 6 pm. Zucker is a distant relative of Stephan Ehses, director of the RIGG from 1895 to 1926. Zucker studied philosophy and theology in Rome and Vienna.
After endless years of vagabonding, this summer the DAI in Rome returns to its original location in the Via Sardegna. This also pleases all Christian archaeologists for whom the Institute is a second home.
Information about the renovation
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