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San Michele Arcangelo a Pietralata is a modern parish and titular church at Largo Geltrude Comensoli 6, in the Monti Tiburtini suburb north of the Via Tiburtina in the Pietralata district. Picture of the church at Wikimedia Commons. [1]

The dedication is to Michael the Archangel, and the present titular is Javier Lozano Barragán.

It was designed by Tullio Rossi with a single nave in the neo-Romanesque style, and completed in 1948 using orange-red brick of varying hues. This gives an attractive appearance to an otherwise very plain gabled façade. The door is sent into an arch is grey stone, above which is the coat-of-arms of Pope Pius XII. A statue of Our Lady of Lourdes is perched, rather precariously, on the tip of the gable.

The small, plain interior has a trussed roof and a semi-circular apse. Perhaps a good candidate for the most boring of Rome's titular churches.

External sites

Official diocesan web-page

Italian Wikipedia page

Parish website

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