Today was an early day! We had a lovely wake-up call at 6:30am in order to have time to get ready and eat breakfast in order to leave for Rome by quarter to eight. I almost had a sort of warm shower today too. We really need to figure out the warm water schedule!!
We had a lovely mass in St. Peter’s in the chapel of Sts. Simon & Jude. Their remains are buried under the main alter. Monsignor Fucinaro (I have to check the spelling of his name), our chaplain, said the mass. I’ve only heard him twice before, but he had some really good homilies. The church is beautiful, and it was really fun to watch everyone’s initial reactions. After mass, we split up into groups for walking orientation tours. Dr. Flusche, the Art & Architecture professor, led our group. She has lived in Rome for the last twelve years, but she’s originally from Texas. She showed us:
-a relatively cheap little coffee shop near the Vatican
-bus #64, how to use it & how to NOT get pickpoketed
-the Campo de’ Fiori (a local fresh fruit & vegetable market by day)
-the Jewish Ghetto (famous for its chocolate cookies & artichokes)
-the ruins of a gate dedicated to Octavia (the sister of Caesar Augustus) & a theater
dedicated to the nephew & one-time heir of Caesar Augustus
-the Capitaline Hill & the forum
-Termini, the main train station in Rome
We stopped in the middle of the tour to meet up with all of the other groups in order to eat a very yummy pizza lunch. We were supposed to go out on another tour after lunch, but the restaurant was a bit slow so we had to cancel it. Oh well. I guess that we are going to go on another such outing next Saturday. Hopefully now I shall be able to get in/out of Rome. Or at least in theory I should be able to. Lol. It looks like we might try and go into the city again tomorrow since we have a free day. We shall see!
We had a lovely mass in St. Peter’s in the chapel of Sts. Simon & Jude. Their remains are buried under the main alter. Monsignor Fucinaro (I have to check the spelling of his name), our chaplain, said the mass. I’ve only heard him twice before, but he had some really good homilies. The church is beautiful, and it was really fun to watch everyone’s initial reactions. After mass, we split up into groups for walking orientation tours. Dr. Flusche, the Art & Architecture professor, led our group. She has lived in Rome for the last twelve years, but she’s originally from Texas. She showed us:
-a relatively cheap little coffee shop near the Vatican
-bus #64, how to use it & how to NOT get pickpoketed
-the Campo de’ Fiori (a local fresh fruit & vegetable market by day)
-the Jewish Ghetto (famous for its chocolate cookies & artichokes)
-the ruins of a gate dedicated to Octavia (the sister of Caesar Augustus) & a theater
dedicated to the nephew & one-time heir of Caesar Augustus
-the Capitaline Hill & the forum
-Termini, the main train station in Rome
We stopped in the middle of the tour to meet up with all of the other groups in order to eat a very yummy pizza lunch. We were supposed to go out on another tour after lunch, but the restaurant was a bit slow so we had to cancel it. Oh well. I guess that we are going to go on another such outing next Saturday. Hopefully now I shall be able to get in/out of Rome. Or at least in theory I should be able to. Lol. It looks like we might try and go into the city again tomorrow since we have a free day. We shall see!
Pictures: St Peter's, the Chapel of Sts. Andrew & Simon, I'm touching the foot of St. Peter!, Random shrine on the side of a building near the Vatican. (They're all over the place!)
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