San Pietro in Montorio [SEP] named after
San Pietro in Montorio
San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, Italy, which includes in its courtyard the "Tempietto", a small commemorative "martyrium" (tomb) built by Donato Bramante.
History.
The Church of San Pietro in Montorio was built on the site of an earlier 9th-century church dedicated to Saint Peter on Rome's Janiculum hill. It serves as a shrine, marking the supposed site of St. Peter's crucifixion.
In the 15th century, the ruins were given
Maria, with Bishops Félix Couturier, OP, and Georges Gauthier serving as co-consecrators.
Rouleau was later named the seventh Archbishop of Quebec on July 9, 1926. Pius XI created him Cardinal Priest of "San Pietro in Montorio" in the consistory of December 19, 1927. He was the third Canadian raised to the College of Cardinals, after Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau and Louis Nazaire Bégin. In 1930, he was dangerously bruised and cut when a blowout crashed his motor into a ditch near Levis; he