Vatican Square from St Peter's Dome
If you have a chance to climb to the top of the dome, DO IT!!! You will not...
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From St Peter's Dome
You get a 360 view of Rome from the top of St. Peter's dome.
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From St Peter's Dome
Inside the Vatican Gardens
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From St Peter's Dome
A view of our convent della Fornaci from St. Peter's dome.
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From St Peter's Dome
A view of the true Rome. Trenitalia
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From St. Peter's Dome
Still atop St. Peter's dome.
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From St. Peter's Dome
More of the Vatican gardens with a beautiful grotto fountain.
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Milagros
Milagros ("miracles") are little trinkets (usually made of...
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St. Ignatius of Loyola
From the steps of St. Ignatius. Rome is more compact than you would imagine.
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Ignatius of Loyola
This is a very beautiful mosaic of St. Patrick of Ireland. It reminds...
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St. Catherine of Sienna
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Michaelangelo's Christ.
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St. Ignatius of Loyola
Venerating Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary & St. Dominic.
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St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Side of the Pantheon
The outer wall of the Pantheon
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Pantheon
It feels like air conditioning in here, but it's just the stone walls!
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Pantheon
A beautiful painting of the assumption inside.
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Pantheon
Inside the Pantheon.
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Pantheon
The original dome of the Pantheon. This is the oldest continuously...
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From the steps of the Pantheon.
The Pantheon is on the original level of the Roman city. However, things have...
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Pantheon
The Pantheon's square is a great place to people-watch while...
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Piazza Navona
Watch your purses & wallets here! Especially while you are watching the...
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Pantheon square
Beautiful flowers...wait is that a Golden Arches underneath that umbrella?
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Pantheon
The Pantheon! The world's oldest, constantly-used building. As a...
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Streets of Roma
Beautiful church hidden in a corner.
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Piazza Navona
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Streets of Roma
Are you sure we aren't lost?
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Streets of Roma
A charming, back-street cafe. You can find tons of these off the allies of...
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Papal audience
A grand exit.
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Papal audience
This is the view from our convent...without using the zoom on the camera!!!
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Papal audience
A parade for the pope...the view from the convent.
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Papa!!!
I cannot tell you how much I cried!!!
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Papa!!!
There he is!!!!!
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Convent
Our dining are at this convent.
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Castile San Angelo
The Tiber and St. Micheal. This structure has such an interesting past and is...
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Papal audience
Look at all these people!
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Papal audience
Waiting for Il Papa!!!!!!
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Papal audience
A Lamborghini club showed up for the Angelus greeting.
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Papal audience
Special parking on Vatican Square.
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Vatican's columns
The view from the front step of our convent. Could we be any closer?!
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Borgo Pio
The best place for a tourist to eat and shop in Rome. Just two streets...
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Borgo Pio
A public water fountain. These run non-stop and it is some of the best public...
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All roads lead to Rome!
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Castile San Angelo
The Castle of St. Michael the Archangel. "Defend us in this day of...
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The Tiber
One night I walked the banks of this ancient river praying the Rosary--one of...
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Santo Spiritu
I could spend hours just staring into her face. It is as if she were not a...
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Santo Spiritu
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Santo Spiritu
The Church of the Holy Spirit. This is just 30 seconds down the street...
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Santo Spiritu
St. Faustina's relics are housed in this church. This church is...
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Our Convent
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Our Convent
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Swiss Guards
The Swiss Guards of the Vatican. My grandma wanted one of these as a...
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SCAVI Tour
The Clementine Chapel. St. Peter's bones are just inches to the...
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JP II, We Love You!!!
We watch as the custodian places our rosaries on the tomb of the Pope...
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The Vatican
Watched over by the Saints.
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The Vatican
St. Peter's Square -- these fountains are huge. You can see our...
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St. Peter's Square
Rome is amazing!
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St. Peter's Basilica
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The Wedding Cake
Different than much of the Roman architecture. Built in the 1700s --...
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The Wedding Cake
Parts of the Roman Forum, with "The Wedding Cake" in the background....
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Trevi Fountian
Katie and I at the Trevi Fountain after we threw our pennies in! We shall...
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Trevi Fountian
This fountain is always crowded, but it is worth it. Don't forget...
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This church claims to have a plenary indulgence. Near the Roman forum.
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Streets of Roma
This is the corner where Michaelangelo's house used to stand...
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Is that...the Coloseum??
Just imagine walking down a busy, downtown street with that in the background!
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Streets of Roma
Ah, Roma!
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A very graphic crucifix.
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Area Sacra
Area Sacra...under construction.
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Area Sacra
Area Sacra now belongs to the stray cats of Rome.
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Area Sacra
Why do all these cats make me feel at home?
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Swiss Guards
A Swiss guard. The one in the background is the one I brought home for grandma.
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The Vatican -- SCAVI Tour
We had special dispensation to travel behind the scenes at the...
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The Vatican -- SCAVI Tour
A side view of St. Peter's Basilica. We are about to take the SCAVI tour,...
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The Vatican -- SCAVI Tour
Waiting for the tour... The SCAVI tour took us through excavated Roman...
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The Vatican
Breath-taking. We stayed in a world-class convent the next year right under...
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The Roof of St. Peter's Basilica
Katie and I are on the ROOF of St. Peter's Basilica!!! How blessed are we!
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The Roof of St. Peter's Basilica
Still on the roof, behind the saints watching over Vatican square.
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St. Peter's Basilica
From the dome looking down onto St. Peter's Basilica.
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The Dome of St. Peter's
Everything in the basilica is made of mosaics. That's a lot of tiles.
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The Dome of St. Peter's
There was a cage around the dome walkway and I still was very scared...
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The Dome of St. Peter's
Every single piece of artwork in St. Peter's Basilica is mosaic....
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Streets of Roma
All roads lead to Vatican city. (It's actually pretty true for the...
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Maria della Fornaci
A view of Maria della Fornaci.
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Via della Fornaci
The walk from our convent.
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Trapped...
How do we get over there? I want that. Why not me?
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St. Peter's Square
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St. Peter's Basilica
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Ah, Roma!
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Vatican Museums
The square in the Vatican Museum.
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Vatican Museums
A gift to JP II from Germany.
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Vatican Museums
The animal room.
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Vatican Museums
Just a preview of the grandeur of the museum.
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Vatican Museums
The Map Room. Probably the coolest room.
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Vatican Museums
The Vatican gardens.
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Vatican Museums
A map of Umbria...look, there's Assisi.
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Vatican Museums
Side of St. Peter's Basilica.
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Vatican Museums
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Vatican Museums
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Vatican Museums
Raphael painted himself in. He's the young one.
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Vatican Museums
On our way out.
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St. Peter's Basilica
The narthex
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St. Peter's Basilica
The Jubilee Doors. These are only opened ever 1000 years and anyone...
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St. Peter's Basilica
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John XXIII
The incorrupt body of Pope John the 23rd. He looks just like he is a...
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St. Peter's Basilica
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St. Peter's Basilica
A Bernini
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The Vatican
From the window of our room!!!! So close!
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Via della Fornaci
Another mosaic on the wall!
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Maria della Fornaci
This church carries a plenary indulgence.
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Streets of Roma
Our subway station that took us under Via della Fornaci.
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Santa Maria Maggiore
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Santa Maria Maggiore
Inside St. Mary Major, the "new" ceilings are made entirely of gold...
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Santa Maria Maggiore
This is the most reliable relic of Jesus' manger. St. Helen brought it to...
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Santa Maria Maggiore
You can see the plank of wood inside. We were given a tour of St M.M. by the...
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Santa Maria Maggiore
Legend states that this is a painting of Mary by St. Luke.
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Santa Maria Maggiore
An incorrupt Pope (not sure who, I think it is a Pius, definitely a Dominican).
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Santa Maria Maggiore
Sts. Cyrill & Methodious. My old church!
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Santa Maria Maggiore
The all seeing eyeball! It's on the backs of our dollar bills.
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Santa Maria Maggiore
View from a balcony on St. Maria Maggiore. No one ever gets to go up...
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Santa Maria Maggiore
In Medjugorje, Our Lady told the visionaries her real birthday was...
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St. John Laterine
This is the Pope's official church/seat. This is the church that...
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St. John Laterine
A side altar
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The Colosseum
No explanation needed.
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The Roman Forum
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help
The orignal painting of St. Luke of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Many miracles...
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The Arc of Constantine
The Arc of Constantine, next to the Colosseum. The one in France is a...
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The Santa Scala
(The Holy Staircase). Pilgrims go up the stairs on their knees and painfully...
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St. Anthony...my patron!
This is the Devotional Church of St. Anthony of Padua. He is my...
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St. Anthony
One of Anthony's greatest miracles. Deprived of food by his owner...
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St. Anthony
The Albigensian heretics would not listen to the teachings of Anthony,...
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Arch of Constantine
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The Colosseum
The Colosseum was not destroyed by war, but by the citizens of Rome. They...
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The Roman forum
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La Vittoria Restaurant
All us us at "La Vittoria"
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La Vittoria Restaurant
Fr. Bill and Maria at "La Vittoria", our favorite restaurant in Rome
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Maria and I saying goodbye!
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Fr. Bill, Lisa and I
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St. Peter's Basilica at night
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The spot where John Paul II was shot
The spot where John Paul II was shot on May 13, 1981. He attributed...
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The Vatican
Pope Benny's window from our convent. No zoom! We're just that close!
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Rome from above
Lost...where are you Via della Fornaci?!
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Rome from above
Still lost...Starting to get frusterated....and beginning to cry.....
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Rome from above
I wanted to get back to the church of Maria Fornaci by 5pm, and it was 10...
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