A different tour of Rome. Civis Romanus sum

In the 1893, thre priest Vittore Jouet, bought a big area on Lungotevere Prati, in Rome and he wanted to build a church in this place. This church called "Sacro Cuore del Suffragio" has a Gothic face as the project of Giuseppe Gualandi provided for. The september 15 of the 1897, in the chapel of the "Madonna del Rosario" (into the church) burst a fire. Once put out the fire, the priest noticed a strange icon beside the altar, made by flames: it seemed something like a melancholy face. Vittore Jouet was sure that it was the figure of a dead man who was trying to contact him; he said that this soul was in the Purgatory and was asking for prayers to go soon in Paradise. So he decided to look for some people with his same experience and when he found them, he built a museum inside the church called "Museo delle Anime del Purgatorio" (museum of Souls of Purgatory). In this museum you can find a lot of experience of this kind: for example the one of Giuseppe Stitz dated, December 21 of the1838. He was reading a book of prayers and suddenly the mark of an hand appeared on the book; moreover he said that he heard the voice of his dead brother asking for prayers and for a Mass to reach Heaven earlier. You can see the book and more other objects with a lot of marks in the museum. To visit the church you have to go to Lungotevere Prati, 18 asking to visit the museum at the secretariat of the church.