San Marco Evangelista in Agro Laurentino
San Marco evangelista in Agro Laurentino is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, on piazza Giuliani e Dalmati in the Giuliano-Dalmata quarter of Rome.
It was built between 1970 and 1972 to plans by Ennio Canino and was consecrated on 29 May 1972 by cardinal vicar Angelo Dell'Acqua. It has been visited by two popes pope Paul VI in April 1973 and pope John Paul II in January 1984.
Inside the church is a bronze Madonna by Perrotta and a bronze crucifix by U. Montalbano. In the crypt is a series of mosaics depicting the patron saints of the native countries of the Giuliano-Dalmati (north-east Adriatic) refugees.
Cardinal vicar Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani's decree Pastoris vigilantis made the church a parish church on 9th March 1950. Since 1973 it has been the seat of the titulus of “San Marco in Agro Laurentino”. It is owned and cared for by the conventual Friars Minor.
Bibliography
- C. Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Milano 2000, 199