Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino | |
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Saint Anselm on the Aventine | |
Badia Sant'Anselmo | |
41°52′56.3″N 12°28′41.0″E / 41.882306°N 12.478056°E | |
Location | Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 5 |
Country | Italy |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Religious order | Benedictines |
History | |
Founded | 4 January 1888 |
Founder(s) | Pope Leo XIII |
Dedicated | April 19, 1893 |
Consecrated | November 11, 1900 |
Relics held | Saint Alexander of Rome; Elena Cornaro Piscopia |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Hildebrand de Hemptinne and Fidelis von Stotzingen |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Romanesque Revival |
Years built | 8 |
Groundbreaking | 1892 |
Completed | 1900 |
Construction cost | 2,500,000 lire |
Specifications | |
Other dimensions | 43,000 square meter property |
Number of spires | 2 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Rome |
Clergy | |
Cardinal protector | Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri |
Abbot | Abbot Primate Gregory Polan, O.S.B. |
Prior | Rev. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B. |
Subprior | Rev. Fernando Luis Rivas, O.S.B. |
Rector | College: Rev. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B.; University: Rev. Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, O.S.B.; Church: Rev. Doroteo Toić, O.S.B. |
Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino (English: Saint Anselm on the Aventine) is a complex located on the Piazza Cavalieri di Malta Square on the Aventine Hill in Rome's Ripa rione and overseen by the Benedictine Confederation and the Abbot Primate.[1] The Sant'Anselmo complex, also known as the "Primatial Abbey of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Badia Sant'Anselmo) because it is the residence of the Abbot Primate, consists of: an ecclesiastical residential college known as the "College of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Collegio Sant'Anselmo); a university known as the "Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm" (Italian: Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo); the "Church of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Chiesa Sant'Anselmo); and the curial headquarters of the "Benedictine Confederation" and Abbot Primate. The complex and associated institutions are named in honor of the Benedictine monk Saint Anselm of Canterbury.