I Lead Pilgrimages in Rome, Only Rome

THE MEMENTO MORI ERA, LATIN FOR REMEMBER YOU DIE !  THE 17th CENTURY WAS A RELIGIOUS ERA DEFINING THIS LIFE AS TRANSITORY AND ONLY A PREPARATION FOR ETERNAL LIFE. COST IS A FLAT 500 EURO, UNLESS THE GROUP IS SO LARGE OUR DRIVER HAS TO UPGRADE.  THERE ARE 10 CHURCHES WE HAVE TO VIEW SO IT’s AN INTENSE BUSY PILGRIMAGE.  WE WILL VISIT AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. WE WILL BEGIN WITH MY VERY FAVE LIFE-SIZE SKELETON ART OF ALL TIME, at SAN PIETRO IN VINCOLI.  THIS CHURCH REACHED BY AN OUTSIDE UP STAIRWAY OFF VIA CAVOUR OR NEARBY COLLE OPPIO HILL AND THE COLOSSEO. JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO GET SOME RELIEF FROM A FULL BLOWN SKELETON, WHAMMY, THERE’s BIG BONY LEGS AND FEET STICKING OUT FROM BEHIND THE MARBLE COFFIN AND YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ENTIRE WHOLE LIFE-SIZE SKELETON EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE WHAT’s BEHIND THE TOMB!  1707 SCULPTURE BY PIERRE LE GROS THE YOUNGER FOR CINZIO ALDOBRANDINI.  FULL BLOWN WINGS AND THE UBIQUITOUS HOUR...

 THIS CHURCH IS ONE SHORT ALLEY BLOCK SOUTH OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, FROM THE SW CORNER OF THE BASILICA.  VISITS TO THIS CHURCH ARE PART OF MY PETER AND PAUL PILGRIMAGE.   REMEMBER THIS FOTO FROM SANTA PUDENZIANA?  SHOWING THE TWO SISTERS PUDENZIANA AND PRASSEDE SAVING MARTYRS’ BLOOD IN A WELL AND PREPARING BODIES FOR CHRISTIAN BURIAL?   THE WELL IN THE PAINTING IS A ROUND WELL.  THERE IS NO ROUND WELL AT PUDENZIANA.  THE WELL IS SQUARE AT PUDENZIANA. PRASSEDE HAS THE ROUND WELL BUT THEY DIDN’t SAVE IT.  It’s COVERED OVER WITH A COSMATESQUE FLOOR.   The PAINTER REPRESENTED THE PRASSEDE WELL BUT SOMEHOW THE PAINTING GOT HUNG IN PUDENZIANA.  JUST SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT PUDENZIANA AND PRASSEDE. Sandra Panici aka the ROMAN PILGRIM IN PERSON IN ROME, text me on WHATSAPP at 01139 338 744 7764 from the USA or 0039 338 744 7764 from Italy; email me at cuteycat9@gmail.com 

 SOME OF THE FEATURES OF THIS GLORIOUS CHURCH WE WILL SEE ON A PILGRIMAGE.  VISITS TO THIS CHURCH ARE PART OF MY PETER AND PAUL PILGRIMAGE.  THIS IS THE CHURCH OF FIRSTS, it’s the FIRST AND OLDEST CHURCH IN ROME, it’s WHERE PETER LIVED IN ROME, it’s WHERE PETER SAID MASS IN ROME, THE MAN WHO OWNED THE HOUSE UNDER THE CHURCH, SENATOR PUDENS OR PUDENTE, WAS PETER’s FIRST CONVERT IN ROME.  The APSE DISPLAYS THE OLDEST MOSAIC IN ROME.  THE CURRENT MOSAIC IS NOT THE ORIGINAL MOSAIC, it IS MUCH SMALLER,  this HOUSE CHURCH IS WHERE THE POPES, THE BISHOPS OF ROME, FIRST LIVED IN ROME.   SIMPLE CLEAR BRILLIANT ELEGANCE THE MAIN ALTAR THE APSE SHOWING SISTERS PUDENZIANA AND PRASSEDE PLACING LAURELS ON SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, REPRESENTING SPREADING THE GOSPEL FAR AND WIDE TO ALL PEOPLE.  PUDENZIANA IS THE OLDER SISTER, PRASSEDE THE YOUNGER SISTER. THE ALTAR OF ST. PETER AND THE RELIQUARY WITH PARTS OF THE TABLE UPON WHICH HE SAID MASS IN ROME THEY SAVED THE W...

 JUNE 29 is the FEAST DAY OF THE FATHERS OF ROME PETER AND PAUL.  IT IS CELEBRATED AS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY ONLY IN ROME.  THIS PILGRIMAGE COVERS 3 DAYS JUNE 27, 28, 29, 2024, and BEGINS ON JUNE 26, 2024 WITH APERITIVO, DINNER AND LODGING.  IT ENDS AT CHECKOUT ON JUNE 30.  Cost is 500 EURO PER PERSON PER DAY FOR 4 DAYS, this INCLUDES ALL MEALS, ALL TRANSPORTATION AND HOTEL LODGING FOR 4 NIGHTS. JUNE 27 WILL BEGIN WITH THE CHURCH OF FIRSTS IN ROME, THE FABULOUS LA BASILICA DI SANTA PUDENZIANA ON VIA URBANA IN ROME, JUST ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF THE BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE.  SANTA PUDENZIANA IS WHERE PETER’s MINISTRY IN ROME BEGAN.  PETER LIVED IN SENATOR PUDENS HOUSE OVER WHICH THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT, SO PUDENZIANA BEGAN AS A HOUSE CHURCH. SANTA PUDENZIANA IS THE CHURCH OF FIRSTS IN ROME, THE MOST IMPORTANT EARLY CHURCH OF ROME.  PUDENZIANA IS WHERE PETER SAID HIS FIRST MASS IN ROME.  PUDENZIANA HAS AN ALTAR DEDICATED TO PETER WHERE PARTS OF THE ...

APRIL 25 IS NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY IN ITALY AND A NATIONAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.  IT IS THE OCCASION WHEN AMASENO AND PARISHES ACROSS ITALY COME TO ROME AND CELEBRATE SAN LORENZO HIGH MASS IN THE MORNING AT HIS FLAGSHIP CHURCH, SAN LORENZO AL VERANO.  APRIL 25 is a MORNING AND AFTERNOON PILGRIMAGE WITH BREAKFAST, OUTSIDE PICNIC LUNCH WITH THE LOCALS AND LATE AFTERNOON APERITIVO.  THE AFTERNOON WILL BE SPENT VISITING THE SITE OF HIS MARTYRDOM AT SAN LORENZO IN PANISPERNA AND THE SITE OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AT SAN LORENZO IN FONTE.   AUGUST 10 is the DAY OF SAN LORENZO’s MARTYRDOM, it IS CELEBRATED WITH HIGH MASS IN THE MORNING AT SAN LORENZO AL VERANO.  The AFTERNOON IS ABOUT VISITS TO SAN LORENZO IN PANISPERNA AND SAN LORENZO IN FONTE.  Over THREE DAYS WE WILL VISIT ALL EIGHT OF THE EXTANT CHURCHES IN ROME DEDICATED TO SAN LORENZO and ONE OTHER CONNECTED TO SAN LORENZO BUT DEDICATED TO MARY.  THESE ARE LISTED BELOW.   ON THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 12 is the FAMO...