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Marko Ivan Rupnik was born November 28, 1954 in Zadlog, Slovenia near Idrija. 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.

Father Marko Ivan Rupnik is a Slovenian Jesuit, based in Rome, whose mosaics adorn churches at Fatima and Lourdes, in Rome or Milan, in Cluj-Napoca Romania  as well as the Pope’s private chapel in Vatican.In America his works are in Cappella della Santa Famiglia nel Quartier Generale dei Cavalieri di Columbus in New Haven and in Cappella della Sacred Heart University, Fairfield

Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut

Sacred Heart University is a Roman

Catholic university located in suburban

Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.

Sacred Heart was founded in 1963 and was the first Catholic

university in the United States to be staffed by

the laity. SHU is the second

largest Catholic university in New England, behind

Boston College, and offers more than 40 degree programs to

over 6,000 students at the bachelor's,

master's and doctoral levels.

Chapel at Sacred Heart University, FairfieldAugust 2008

The altar and ambo, solid blocks of limestone with the integrated mosaics of Eucharistic symbols, are the central focus of this new university chapel

A pelican fronts the main altar, calling to mind the powerful story that this bird will pierce its own side to feed her young, an apt metaphor for the Sacred Heart of Jesus

The altar mosaics are powerful expressions of classic symbols such as the pelican using her own flesh to feed her young. The materials are limestone and mosaic tiles.

The limestone altar in the main sanctuary stands in fornt of a dazzling image of Jesus the Risen Savior, surrounded by his disciples as He pulls Adam and Eve from the depths of hell to salvation

Eve tenderly reaches for the side of Christ as if to place her fingers in the wound she finds there.

Descent into Hell and appearance of the RisenAnnunciation: Archangel Gabriel And Virgin Mary

Annunciation: Archangel Gabriel And Virgin Mary

Conventional marble tile segments set to show both polished and unpolished faces separated by widely spaced tessere

Annunciation: Archangel Gabriel - detail

The 500-seat main sanctuary

A team of Italian artisans from the Giuliani Studios in Rome, where the 45 panes of stained glass were created and fabricated, The modernist windows in the main sanctuary feature a collection of symbols, forms and words (rather than traditional images) that reference the people and events in the "story of salvation," which is integral to the "Catholic intellectual tradition,"

A wound of the Risen Christ with Precious Blood. Such important segments were made in studio in Italy and shipped for onsite install

Visitors to the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, a more intimate setting for daily Mass and private devotions, are surrounded by images of the Magi bearing gifts for the Christ Child, the Holy Family in the manger, and the maternal grandparents of the Lord, Saint Joachim and Ann. Highlighted by a shaft of heavenly light, the tabernacle was taken from the original Sacred Heart University Chapel.

Right wall: Joachim and AnneLeft wall: the Magi

Main wall: Nativity

The signature of Centro Aletti for this mosaic is a piccolo scoiattolo rosso, a little red squirellAugust 2008

A bucket of beautiful refuse

Cappella della Santa Famiglia nel Quartier Generale dei Cavalieri di Columbus a New Haven, February 2005

The Crucifixion

Nativity details

Nativity

The Wedding at Cana

The Wedding at Cana - detail

L’arcangelo Gabriele L’arcangelo Raffaele

Sound: Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

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