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Climbing the Holy Stairs, which Jesus stood on outside of Pilate's residence in Jerusalm. (And St Helena moved them to Rome.)
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Mass in the Catacombs of Domitilla.
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Church of Saints Nereus and Achilleus, inside the Catacomb of Domitilla where the two marytrs were buried. The church dates from the 4th Century.
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Praying at the tomb of St. Fabian in the Church of St. Sabastian.
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The via Appia Antica, the Appian way where the Apostles walked to enter Rome.
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Piazza del Populo, with the twin churches of Santa Maria in Montesanto (left) and Santa Maria dei Miracoli (right).
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Inside Santa Maria del Populo, the Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio (1601).
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The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus, also by Caravaggio (1601).
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Mass at the Clementine altar at the Tomb of St Peter in the grottos under St. Peter's Basilica.
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Climbing up the Cupulo of St. Peter's the walls are starting to slant.
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View of the Vatican Gardens from the Cupula of St. Peter's - Pope Benedicts Papal crest.
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Fr. Kosch and Nate overlooking Rome.
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Me, on the roof of St. Peter's.
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Pope Benedict XVI giving the Sunday Angelus.
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"As we continue our Lenten journey, we renew our resolve to listen attentively to the Son of God, and we draw comfort and hope from the revelation of his glory."
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St. Mary Major, detail of the apse mosaic of the Coronation of Mary.
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Mass at the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi.
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The facade of the Cathedral of Orvieto, started in 1300, took 100 years to complete.
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The Cathedral was entirely rebuilt in 1290 to hold the Sacred Corporal from the Eucharistic Miracle in Bolsena in 1263.
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The betrothal of the Mary and Joseph.
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Detail of the facade.
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At the Wednesday Audience with Pope Benedict XVI (here inside St. Peter's).
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"Lent is a privileged time for all Christians to recommit themselves to conversion and spiritual renewal. In this way, we rekindle a genuine faith in Christ, a life-giving relationship with God and a more fervent dedication to the Gospel."
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"Strengthened by the conviction that love is the distinguishing mark of Christian believers, I encourage you to persevere in bearing witness to charity in your daily lives."
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In St. Paul's Outside the walls are Mosaics of all the popes, here the 265th: Pope Benedict XVI
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And here the 1st: St. Peter
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The Deposition from the Cross (1600), considered one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces in Chiesa Nuova (the original is now in the Vatican Museums, see below).
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The Crowning of the Virgin (1502) by Raphael.
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The Transfiguration (1516-1520) was Raphael's last painting. Besides the Transfiguration above, with Christ in glory between the prophets Moses and Elijah, below in the foreground, is the meeting of the Apostles with the obsessed youth who will be miraculously cured by Christ on his return from Mount Tabor.
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Jacopo Zucchi, Miracle of the snow. In August 352 a miraculous snow fell on the Esquiline Hill. The Pontiff had a dream that Our Lady desired a church to be built on the spot. So he did, what today is St. Mary Major.
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Jacopo Zucchi, Procession of St Gregory the Great. Depicts how in 590 Pope Gregory the Great, conducting a penitential procession to pray for the end of a plague, had a vision of the archangel Michael sheathing his sword over the castle, signifying the end of the plague.
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The Deposition from the Cross (1600), considered one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces.
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Martyrdom of St Clement, Pier Leone Ghezzi. The 4th Pope, he was bound to an anchor and cast into the Black Sea in 101 AD.
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Francesco Trevisani, Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well
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Raphael, The Liberation of St Peter shows the prince of the apostles and first Pope, miraculously saved from prison by an angel while the guards lie sleeping (Acts 12:5-12).
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In St. Peter's Basilica, Fr. Kosch captures Nate reverencing the foot of St. Peter.
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Statue of St. Catherine of Sienna, in the quaint little Church of San Bernardo alle Terme (next to Santa Susanna). It had a dome modeled on the Pantheon, except half its size.
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It's not just the Pieta of Michaelangelo. Click to see them dance!
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AVI Video
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3 Videos of Pope Benedict from the Wednesday Audience
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AVI VIdeo (Better focused)
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Translation: [In the literary corpus of Augustine are more than 1,000 publications divided into] philosophical, apologetic, doctrinal, moral, monastic, exegetic and anti-heretical writings in addition precisely to the letters and homilies.
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AVI VIdeo (Less focused)
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Translation: Of these Confessiones, which met with great success during his lifetime, St Augustine wrote: "They exercised such an influence on me while I was writing them and still exercise it when I reread them. Many brothers like these works"; and I can say that I am one of these "brothers".
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