On the Feast of All Saints (1 November) at 5 pm, the traditional All Saints' Vespers will take place on the Campo Santo, followed by a candlelight procession and the blessing of graves. Six of the eight (nine) directors of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society lie in the cemetery: Kirsch, Ehses, Stoeckle, Kirschbaum, Voelkl and Gatz.
Gudrun Sailer opened up insights into the past and future of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society in a short interview with Stefan Heid on the occasion of the publication of the 11-year activity report.
Since her dissertation (Marburg 1982) on the tomb paintings of Tarquinia, supervised by Professor Bernard Andreae, the classical archaeologist Prof. Dr. Cornelia Weber-Lehmann has devoted herself to researching Etruscan art and its documentation and reception. The photo shows her on a sunny spring day preparing a 3D image of the famous Tomba dell'Orco in Tarquinia (4th century BC).
Mons. Dr. Federico Gallo is Ordinary Doctor of the Ambrosian Library and Ordinary Canon of Milan Cathedral. He holds a degree in Classical Literature (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), a degree in Palaeography and Archivism and a degree in Greek Palaeography (Vatican Secret Archives). He is a Doctor of Letters (PhD) (Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Budapest).
The General Assembly in Aachen went very well overall, both in terms of content and organisation. Since the founding of the Görres Society in 1876, the General Assembly has not only been a kind of trans-disciplinary congress at which lectures are held in the science sections, but has also always been associated with an accumulation of meetings of the various bodies - above all the Board of Directors, Section Heads and the Finance Committee.
The Klerusblatt - Journal of the Catholic Clergy in Bavaria and the Palatinate (published by the Klerusverband e.V., editor Dr. Gerhard Deißenböck), brings in No. 8-9 of 15 August 2022 an article by Stefan Heid on the Roman Institute of the Görres Society - Society with New Perspectives.
The newsletter of the Roman Institute, which invites to monthly lectures and gives book tips, reached the 900 mark on 17 September. That is a doubling in four years. If growth continues, the 1000 mark will be reached in a good year.. Here You can subscribe to the Newsletter.
Nikolas Möller (* 1979) majored in Classical Archaeology and minored in Ancient History and Near Eastern Archaeology in Freiburg i. Br. A semester abroad took him to Naples. He is currently doing his doctorate in Provincial Roman Archaeology at the LMU Munich with a thesis on Kraiburg a. Inn (Noricum) in Roman times.
Chief editor Guido Horst has published in "Die Tagespost" a snappy and encouraging article on the Roman Institute of the Görres Society on the occasion of its eleven-year activity report. Horst, who lived in Rome for a long time and who meanwhile visits the Eternal City again for important events, is more familiar with the Campo Santo and its complex but lively realities grouped around the German cemetery than almost anyone else. In the meantime, there is also a supporting membership of the Roman Institute for all those who are not privileged to live in Italy but have a heart for Rome and the historical Eldorado (see our "Hall of Fame").
Daniel Zucker first studied philosophy here in Rome at the Dominican University (Angelicum) and then dedicated himself to the study of theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck. He is currently doing the novitiate for the Central Italian Province of the Dominicans in Naples and will begin his licentiate in Ecumenical Theology at the Angelicum the following year.