The Pope to visit the Church of Divino Amore and the Church of St.Stanislaus
April 15, 2014: Pope Francis on Sunday, May 18 , at 4 p.m., will visit the Church
of Our Lady of Divino Amore, a place of pilgrimage very dear to the Romans. The Marian
Church was constructed in 1750, is situated on the way to Ardeatina a place situated
about 12 kms from Rome in Castel di Leva, where pilgrims flocked after a faithful
was miraculously saved from the jaws of angry stray dogs, when he invoked the Madonna.
Later in 1944, Pope Pius the XII visited this shrine and named it the Salvatrice
of the City. He will also visit Church of St. Stanislaus the so-called Polish
church in Rome on Sunday, May 4th , in the morning. The church follows religious
traditions typically Polish. This church was built by the architect Francesco Ferrari
between 1729 and 1735 which was also completed with other decorative works with the
help of King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski .