In preparation for the beatification of John Henry Newman by the Holy Father on 19th September, the Congregation for Divine Worship has issued the texts for the Divine Office of the feast. The reading is taken from the ‘Apologia pro Vita Sua’, which poignantly records his life up to the time of the reception into […]

St Luigi Scrosoppi of the Oratory

John Paul II canonised St Luigi Scrosoppi on 10th June 2001, and named him patron saint of those suffering with AIDS. It was at the intercession of St Luigi that an Zambian man, now Fr Peter Changu Shitima, was miraculously cured of AIDS in 1996. He was at that time a member […]

Feast of St Vitus at Forio
Tuesday 15th June

The Silver and Gold Statue of the Saint (with his faithful Border Terrier at his side)
 
The procession of the relic and image around the parish (in 5 parts)
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Buona Festa!

St Philip Neri and St Ignatius Loyola 
At the west of the Holy Name, facing each other across the breadth of the church, are the statues of St Philip Neri and St Ignatius Loyola. These images that answer each other in the architectural space show not only great saints of the Counter Reformation, the founders of great Religious […]