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Marko Ivan Rupnik was born November 28, 1954 in Zadlog, Slovenia near Idrija. He is the fourth child, after three sisters. He studied philosophy in Ljubljana and then, in 1977, enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome followed. He was ordained a priest in 1985. In 1991 he earned a doctorate. Since September of 1991 he has lived and worked in Rome at the Centro Aletti, of which he is the director. He teaches at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, the Pontifical Gregorian University, Saint Anselm Pontifical Liturgical Institute, and gives seminars and lectures at numerous other European academic institutions. In 2002 he was decorated with the honor “Sign of honor of the freedom of the Slovenian Republic”, conferred on him by the president of the republic. In 2003 he received the international “Beato Angelico” prize for Europe.

The Pontifical Irish College is a

Roman Catholic seminary for the

training and education of

priests, in Rome.

The Pontifical Irish College

The Chapel of the Pontifical Irish

College is dedicated to All

the Saints of Ireland and has

been reordered by the Slovenian

Jesuit Marko Ivan Rupnik and the

international ecumenical

community of artists at the Centro Aletti,

Rome. The new mosaic was

installed in March 2010.

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The Angel

In designing the cross which stands in the sanctuary, Father Rupnik wanted to depict how the fate of Adam and Eve who took the forbidden fruit from the tree in the Garden of Eden was reversed by Jesus Christ who was nailed to the tree on Calvary.

Saint Joseph is the father of Jesus and the husband of Mary. He is the Patron Saint of carpenters, house buyers and sellers, fathers, confectioners, wheelwrights, and working people.

Saint Joseph is depicted with the two turtledoves that he offered at the presentation of the child Jesus in the Temple

The seven stained glass windows were also designed by Father Marko Rupnik and were made by Vetrate Giuliani in Rome

Each window contains a phrase associated with the particular person depicted. (For Christ “Feed my lambs, feed my sheep”)

On each of the four sides of the altar there is a cross with an enameled angel inserted into the corner.

Behind Mary is Saint Patrick, Patron of Ireland, easily identified by the shamrock in his hand.Next is Saint Columbanus, one of the many Irish missionary saints that proclaimed the Gospel in Europe during the golden age of the Irish Church in the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries.The last figure on the left-hand side of the mosaic is Blessed Columba Marmion (1858 – 1923). Beatified in September 2000, Marmion was a student at the Irish College

Blessed Columba Marmion (1858 – 1923). Beatified in September 2000, Marmion was a student at the Irish College

The base of the cross is formed by the roots of a tree, the tree of Jesse from which the Saviour comes.

On the right-hand side, behind Saint John the Baptist, Saint Oliver Plunkett (1625 – 1681) is represented holding the green palm of martyrdom in his hand. Oliver Plunkett was a student at the Irish College from 1647 – 1654.He was the last Catholic martyr to die in England. Next to Saint Oliver is Saint Brigid, the Patroness of Ireland, who holds her distinctive cross in her hands.The last figure on the right, depicted without a halo but with the palm of martyrdom, is Father Ragheed Ganni (1972 – 2007).

Ragheed Aziz Ganni was an ethnic Assyrian Chaldean Catholic priest. On June 3, 2007, Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, he was killed along with three subdeacons in front of Mosul's Holy Spirit Chaldean Church where he was parish priest. Father Ganni was secretary to Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Archbishop of Mosul of the Chaldean Church, Iraq's largest Christian community. Rahho was murdered only nine months after Ganni's death, in the same city of Mosul

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