Fr. Frank's Rome Sabbatical: November 2011

A few of us went down to the crypt in St. Peter's to have morning Mass.

I took a few pictures of St. Peter's. This is in the entry to the sacristy, St. Andrew

It is hard to believe that these pictures are mosaics and not paintings.

I can't even remember which Pope this is, there are so many of them around.

The apostles are the statues in the main part of St. John Lateran Church. These statues around the main parts of St. Peters are all founders of Religious Orders.

St. Vincent de Paul

Crows in Rome are gray and black.

A fountain at the Villa Borghese

This Medusa is a part of the monument you will see in a moment

Borghese Art Museum

These were probably the servants quarters in this Villa.

I think they buried the Borghese pope or Cardinal here.

This is Mass in the St. Priscilla Catacombs.

This is in Santa Maria in Traspontina

I went to Vespers in St. Peters and took this picture to get the angels.

Another random fountain.

There version of the Open House at SAC was having its second weekend in Circus Maximus.

I was doing my version of Quo Vadis and walking out of Rome and heading for San Sebastianos. This graffiti was on an highway underpass just outside the walls. You don't see it as much inside the walls but it is everywhere outside them.

I don't know if this old restaurant is where Jesus met Peter as he was sneaking out of Rome, but it made this walk something very special for me. I was on the Via Appia Antica, which would have been the likely road for Peter. I walked for over eight hours last Saturday.

Basilica of St. Sebastian. There are catacombs here but I did not enter them for I had been in several already.

Grandmother Ann gets to hold baby Jesus.

Must be St. Jerome or St. John in his old age.

St. Francis of Assisi with the Stigmata.

St. Sebastian

Ceiling

Jesus

This is the entrance to the church of Santi Nereo and Achilleo, martyrs

It was filled with frescoes of the deaths of the apostles. It was a good thing that they were somewhat faded because they were very graphic.

This is the outside of that church. I had been by it many times and it was always closed so I presumed it had been abandoned.

This is a more modern church in a residential neighborhood outside the walls, Christ the King.

A military monument just up the street.

Further up I came to the Olympic Village that Italy built a while back.

This was outside the walls but still impressive. It was locked.

These statues of John the Baptist and Jesus were on the entrance to one of the bridges over the Tiber River.

They were selling rusty padlocks on the bridge.

Clay court tennis remains from Olympic times.

This is the steeple for All Saints Episcopal Church. The non-Catholic churches are seldom open in Rome.

I haven't checked which of these signs if the official name of this church.

They had this copy of the Shroud of Turin.

Besides the fancy ribbons from the ceiling they had the Christmas crip up already.

This is St. Dominic and Sisto Church at the Angelicum University.

I presume this is St. Sisto?

Jesus and Mary Magdalene

The Gregorian University

This is the entrance to Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Umilta. It is a part of a convent so is seldom open to the public from what I could tell.

Sts. Vincent and Anastasia

Death of Joseph. I just found out the little silver heart things are called ex-voteos? They are signs from people that the saint has answered their prayers.