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'''Santa Francesca Cabrini''' is a modern parish church at Piazza Massa Carrara 15 in the Nomentano quarter, north-east of the Bologna metro station. Picture of the church on Wikimedia Commons. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nomentano_-_Santa_Francesca_Cabrini.JPG [1]] |
'''Santa Francesca Cabrini''' is a modern parish church at Piazza Massa Carrara 15 in the Nomentano quarter, north-east of the Bologna metro station. Picture of the church on Wikimedia Commons. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nomentano_-_Santa_Francesca_Cabrini.JPG [1]] |
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| − | The parish is administered by the Marists. |
+ | The parish is administered by the Society of Mary or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mary_(Marists) Marists]. |
| − | The patron saint was from near Lodi in Lombardy, and founded the "Missionary SIsters of the Sacred Heart" at Codogno in 1874. From 1889 to her death in Chicago in 1917 she was resident in the USA, becoming an American citizen and founding sixty-seven institutions of her congregation in North and South America. |
+ | The patron saint, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_S._Cabrini Francesca Cabrini], was from near Lodi in Lombardy, and founded the "Missionary SIsters of the Sacred Heart" at Codogno in 1874. From 1889 to her death in Chicago in 1917 she was resident in the USA, becoming an American citizen and founding sixty-seven institutions of her congregation in North and South America. |
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| + | The church was designed by the partnership of Enrico Lenti and Mario Muratori, to a derivative and unusual design based on the neo-Romanesque, and was completed in 1958. The plan is rectangular, a nave with a semi-circular apse attached and with two shallow transepts shaped like halves of an irregular decagon and lower than the nave. The roofs are pitched, and the exterior walls are in pink brick. This material is used in the outer vertical strips of the entrance façade, but the rest of its structural elements are in concrete. |
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| ⚫ | Two tall concrete slabs at the inner edges of the brickwork hold up the concrete roof gable. A horizontal concrete beam crosses the frontage between these, and bears a dedicatory inscription. Below it are three entrances, the central one slightly wider than the outer two and with double concrete pillars between the entrances and also between the outer pair and the support slabs mentioned above. Above each entrance is a trapezoidal pediment. Above the inscription beam the rest of the façade, including the gable, is filled by an enormous stained glass window by Ranocchi in four sections, three rectangular ones and a triangular one in the gable giving the impression of a pediment. The outer two rectangular sections have concrete mullions in a rectangular grid, but the central one has a large device in the shape of a pair of compasses superimposed in the pattern of mullions. The theme of the window is the series of apparitions at Lourdes. |
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To the right of the façade is the tall and spectacular campanile, on a square plan but with the corners cut away to form a cross. The faces are in pink brick, and the cut-away corners in concrete. The tall bellchamber is entirely in concrete, with four vertical slit soundholes arranged in a rectangle on each face. The cap is very steep, and the roof pitches from the cross plan of the tower meet at a point. |
To the right of the façade is the tall and spectacular campanile, on a square plan but with the corners cut away to form a cross. The faces are in pink brick, and the cut-away corners in concrete. The tall bellchamber is entirely in concrete, with four vertical slit soundholes arranged in a rectangle on each face. The cap is very steep, and the roof pitches from the cross plan of the tower meet at a point. |
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| − | [http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/ |
+ | [http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/?page_id=188&ID=116 Official diocesan web-page] |
[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_Santa_Francesca_Cabrini Italian Wikipedia page] |
[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_Santa_Francesca_Cabrini Italian Wikipedia page] |
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Revision as of 14:55, 12 May 2012
Santa Francesca Cabrini is a modern parish church at Piazza Massa Carrara 15 in the Nomentano quarter, north-east of the Bologna metro station. Picture of the church on Wikimedia Commons. [1]
The parish is administered by the Society of Mary or Marists.
The patron saint, Francesca Cabrini, was from near Lodi in Lombardy, and founded the "Missionary SIsters of the Sacred Heart" at Codogno in 1874. From 1889 to her death in Chicago in 1917 she was resident in the USA, becoming an American citizen and founding sixty-seven institutions of her congregation in North and South America.
The church was designed by the partnership of Enrico Lenti and Mario Muratori, to a derivative and unusual design based on the neo-Romanesque, and was completed in 1958. The plan is rectangular, a nave with a semi-circular apse attached and with two shallow transepts shaped like halves of an irregular decagon and lower than the nave. The roofs are pitched, and the exterior walls are in pink brick. This material is used in the outer vertical strips of the entrance façade, but the rest of its structural elements are in concrete.
Two tall concrete slabs at the inner edges of the brickwork hold up the concrete roof gable. A horizontal concrete beam crosses the frontage between these, and bears a dedicatory inscription. Below it are three entrances, the central one slightly wider than the outer two and with double concrete pillars between the entrances and also between the outer pair and the support slabs mentioned above. Above each entrance is a trapezoidal pediment. Above the inscription beam the rest of the façade, including the gable, is filled by an enormous stained glass window by Ranocchi in four sections, three rectangular ones and a triangular one in the gable giving the impression of a pediment. The outer two rectangular sections have concrete mullions in a rectangular grid, but the central one has a large device in the shape of a pair of compasses superimposed in the pattern of mullions. The theme of the window is the series of apparitions at Lourdes.
To the right of the façade is the tall and spectacular campanile, on a square plan but with the corners cut away to form a cross. The faces are in pink brick, and the cut-away corners in concrete. The tall bellchamber is entirely in concrete, with four vertical slit soundholes arranged in a rectangle on each face. The cap is very steep, and the roof pitches from the cross plan of the tower meet at a point.
The exterior walls are in blank brick, each incorporating fourteen structural concrete pilasters regularly spaced. At the roofline between each pair of pilasters is a dormer window with a trapezoidal roofline, and there are thirteen of these on each side. The pilaster end in horizontal outward projections between these. The transepts and apse are in the same style, but without the windows.