Chiesa della Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth, Roma

Chiesa della Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth rises on piazzale delle Gardenie in Prenestino-Centocelle. Before you is a parish church devoted to the Holy Family. Notice the plain brick mass, the large cross above it, and the paired stairways leading into the entrance porch.

Built from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy-two, it was designed for the Sons of the Holy Family by the engineer-priest Giancarlo Cevenini and Mario Fusacchia. Cardinal Angelo Dell’Acqua consecrated the church in nineteen seventy-two. A restoration followed in nineteen eighty-four, marking the beatification of Josep Manyanet i Vives, who founded the congregation. In December twenty twenty-four Pope Francis made this a cardinal’s titular church, and Luis Cabrera Herrera is its cardinal-priest.