Fernando Lanzi is a member of the Commission on Sacred Art and of the Institute for the History of the Church of the Diocese of Bologna. Together with Gioia Lanzi, he is the co-founder and director of the Centro Studi per la Cultura Popolare, which since 1976 has studied the expression of the sacred in all forms, such as sacred images, sanctuaries, pilgrimages, processions, creches, feasts, and music. Gioia M. G. Lanzi is professor of Sacred Art at the Philosophical Dominican Studium in Bologna, which is associated with the Papal University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Together with Fernando Lanzi, she is the co-founder and director of the Centro Studi per la Cultura Popolare, which since 1976 has studied the expression of the sacred in all forms, such as sacred images, pilgrimages, and processions.