The Marianum is a pontifical institute in Rome, Italy founded by Gabriel Roschini for the study of Mariology.
The name Marianum itself goes back to Pope Boniface IX, who in 1398 granted the Servites the right to confer theological degrees.
[1] In 1939, Servite priest Gabriel Roschini founded the journal Marianum and directed it for thirty years.
In 1950, he also founded the Marianum Theological Faculty, which, on December 8, 1955, became a pontifical faculty by decree Coelesti Honorandae Reginae of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities under the authority of Pope Pius XII.
Since 1971, the pontifical institute has been open to lay persons.