Presentation of the Book "La chiesa e il convento di San Giuliano l'Ospitaliero ai Trofei di Mario" at CISA on May 16
Some would swear they had never heard of it, yet it existed until 1876 in what is now the central Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome. Between legend and real historical news, the church of San Giuliano seems to have been founded by St. Angelo di Sicilia himself, establishing itself as the first Carmelite presence in the capital, then passed in ownership to the Congregation of the Redemptorist Fathers, to the Odescalchi family, and finally expropriated and used by the Municipal Archaeological Commission. Built in the area where the horti of Maecenas must have stood, of which today we observe the well-known Auditorium on Via Merulana, the Carmelite church was also one of the stages of the procession of the Acheropita returning to the Lateran; in the garden of the convent, moreover, the famous fresco, preserved in the Vatican Museums and known as the “Aldobrandini Wedding” will be found. This book is proposed as a journey through time, carried out mainly within the archival record and aimed at reconstructing the church of San Giuliano in the Esquiline district, as important as it is almost completely unknown.
The presentation will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Centro Internazionale Sant'Alberto (CISA) at Via Sforza Pallavicini, 10 in Rome. The presentation is sponsored by the Institutum Carmelitanum.
The book will be introduced by Giovanni Grosso, O. Carm., praeside of the Institutum Carmelitanum. He will also be the moderator. Prof. Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli of the Ministry of Culture and the Pontifical Gregorian University will also present. The author, Cristina Cumbo, will be present.
The book can be purchased from the Edizioni Carmelitane web store. There is a special 30% discount offer at the presentation. You can use the following promotional code to get the discount in the web store: PRESENTAZIONELIBROCUMBO2025
About the author:
Cristina Cumbo was born in Rome, Italy, on July 22, 1987. She holds a PhD in Christian Archaeology. She graduated in History and Conservation of the Artistic and Archaeological Heritage, discussing a thesis on the patristic ogdoad and its reflection in iconography, architecture and liturgy, and in Science of Archaeology and methodology of historical-archaeological research at the University of Roma Tre with a thesis in iconography on the prophet Balaam. In 2016, following the achievement of the Baccalaureate and Licentiate degrees in Christian Archaeology, she was proclaimed Doctor of Research at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology with an innovative iconographic research on the so-called ganunadiae in the Roman catacombs and the creation of a database for their study (GMS - Gammadiae Management System).
