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Basilica Minore del Sacro Cuore di Maria | |
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Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (in English) Sacri Cordis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis ad forum Euclidis (in Latin) | |
41°55′37″N 12°28′52″E / 41.927046°N 12.481202°Eformat | |
Location | Piazza Euclide 34, Rome |
Country | Italy |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Tradition | Roman Rite |
History | |
Status | Titular church, minor basilica |
Dedication | Immaculate Heart of Mary |
Consecrated | 1936 |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Armando Brasini |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Neoclassical |
Groundbreaking | 1923 |
Completed | 1952 |
Specifications | |
Length | 81 |
Width | 57 |
Administration | |
District | Lazio |
Province | Rome |
Clergy | |
Cardinal protector | Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, SJ |
Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Immaculate Heart of Mary), is a titular church in Piazza Euclide, Rome. It was built by the architect Armando Brasini (1879–1965). Its construction began in 1923 with the design of a Greek cross inscribed in a circle with an articulated facade, and completed before 1936, the year in which it was made a parish church and granted to the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Sacred Immaculate Heart of Mary, usually known as the Claretian Missionaries. A grand dome was planned, but never realized;[1] a smaller drum was completed in 1951.
Pope John XXIII elevated it to the rank of Minor Basilica in May 1959, and Pope Paul VI made it a titular church in February 1965, with Ángel Herrera Oria as the first titular. The present titular priest is Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja S.J., appointed in 1994.