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The history of the early Christian collection in the Vatican in its old inventory and in the old buildings of the Campo Santo Teutonico is richly illustrated with historical photos and described in the book "Wohnen wie in Katakomben" by Stefan Heid. It is currently on display in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, so famous is it. Viewed by Ignacio García.
The Swiss historian Dr Lorenzo Planzi, who joined the RIGG in 2018 after spending several years in Rome for his research, will give his habilitation lecture (trial lecture) on the "sante vive" at the University of Fribourg. This refers to a religious women's movement in northern Italy in the 15th/16th century.
To mark the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325, a study day on the significance of the Council in Joseph Ratzinger will be held on 11 May at St Mary's University in London.
On 4 June, a study day on the founder of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (1888) and founder of the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology (1925), the Luxembourg clergyman Johann Peter Kirsch (1861-1941), will take place at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The day is being organised by Ingo Schaaf (Rome/Fribourg) and Isabelle Mossong (Munich/Luxembourg). Kirsch was Professor of Church History in Fribourg until 1932. He died in Rome and is buried in Campo Santo Teutonico.
The book "Altar and Church. Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity" (Stefan Heid, 2023), published by the Catholic University of America in Washington, is among the 20 top-selling new publications. The publisher has achieved top sales of 1.6 million dollars.
Prof. Uwe Michael Lang Or. (London) will speak on 15 May at 7.30 pm at the LMU Munich as part of the series "Latens Veritas Munich" (more lectures here) on the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas
The Leibniz Science Campus Mainz/Frankfurt is offering a series of lectures on Byzantium in the summer semester 2024, some of them in English.
In the summer semester, the Association for Late Antique Archaeology and Byzantine Art History in Munich is offering several lectures. The speakers are Luigi Pinchetti (Bonn), Gabriele Castiglia (Rome), Jon C. Cubas Díaz (Göttingen) and Stefanie Archut (Bonn).
The "Cooperatores Veritatis" conference on Ratzinger in dialogue with philosophy will take place from 17 to 19 April in Mexico City at the Universidad Panamericana. The conference is supported by the Ratzinger Foundation in Madrid.
The March issue of the popular archaeology magazine "Archeo" reports on the front page about the excavations at the Shepherds' Field in Bethlehem, which were started last year by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology and are expected to continue for several years.
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