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News & Events
News & Events

Here follows a wide-though-incomplete range of things that might interest you.
Library
Our library

Approx. 45,500 open access volumes are located in
the college building of the Campo Santo Teutonico in the Vatican
Publications
Our Publications

Since 1888, our publications have been an integral part of the scientific dialogue.
The Institute
The Institute

Founded in 1888, the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG) is the well-known academic centre and foreign institute of the Bonn-based Görres Society.
Donations And Foundation

A montage of four historical film clips from the Italian film studio Luce about Rome and the opening of the Second Vatican Council shows impressive testimonies of a world event as if from another star. Important personalities of the persecuted church such as Karol Wojtyla and Stefan Wyszynski stand up in the flesh. Unfortunately, the camera pans just miss Campo Santo Teutonico several times. It is astonishing that when thousands of bishops marched in to open the Council on 11 October 1962, St Peter's Square was not even half full.

Vatican council ii

Details: Written by: Stefan Heid; Category: Roman notes; Created: 17 March 2023