Weddings in Rome

The three most popular for the weddings of Irish couples are shown here in red

AUGUSTINIANS: ST. PATRICK'S, OSA

PONTIFICAL IRISH COLLEGE

SAN SILVESTRO IN CAPITE

ST PATRICK'S, OSA
(IRISH AUGUSTINIANS)

http://www.stpatricksrome.com/wedding.asp
Email: t.finn@stpatricksrome.com

History: One of the seventeen Irish Martyrs beatified in 1992 was the Augustinian, Blessed William Tirry, who was executed in Clonmel on 2 May 1654. Two years later the Irish Augustinians were given a College in Rome for the purpose of educating Friars to return to minister in Ireland.

The first Prior was Fr John Rice, brother of Blessed Edmund Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. St Patrick's Church was built in 1910. The architect was Aristide Leonori. The design of St Patrick's is in the fourteenth-century Lombardo-Gothic style.The church has a thirteenth-century picture of Our Lady of Grace.

PONTIFICAL IRISH COLLEGE
(COLAISTE NA NGAEDHEAL)

www.irishcollege.org/wedding.htm
Email: reception@irishcollege.org

History: The Irish College, Rome, was founded in 1628 (during the era of the Penal Laws) by the Irish Franciscan, Father Luke Wadding, and the Roman Cardinal, Ludovico Ludovisi for the education of students for the priesthood in Ireland. When the French invaded Rome in 1798 the College was closed and it re-opened after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1826.

The College continues the work of educating men for the priesthood in Ireland, as it has done for almost four hundred years, and for the past few decades many young Irish couples have come there to celebrate their marriage vows.

SAN SILVESTRO IN CAPITE
(IRISH PALLOTTINES)

http://www.freewebs.com/saintsilvester

History: The 11th-century Basilica of San Silvestro is also known as "in capite" because it boasts the head of Saint John the Baptist as its major relic. The church has undergone various stages of restoration up to the 17th century, when it assumed its present aspect. In 1887 ut was designated for English language visitors by pope Leo XIII, and entrusted to the care of the Pallottines, a community founded in the 19th century by St Vincent Pallotti.

It has a very central location in Rome, near the middle of the Via del Corso, quite near the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain. St Silvester's has a lovely, quiet atrium, and offers a very friendly, personalised service.