Wow, we Catholics are so great. Our church is the biggest ever. So big, it has it’s own city, polizia and post office. Personally, I went for the art...
It’s a very long day. Four miles of museum to shuffle through. Tapestries, busts, maps and a lot of strategically placed fig leaves ... just to get to the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel. And then on to St. Peter’s Basilica. It’s so huge it’s dumbfounding. Like Rick Steve says, “To call it vast is like calling God smart.”
there it is.
ya can’t really ever miss it.
part of the line to the museum
backyard at the V...
map room...
the nave...
the altar...
here lies St. Peter
Bernini’s fantastic
bronze canopy
the dome...
with a little God light thrown in.
how’s that for effect?
actual mass going on...
Michelangelo’s Pieta
(doesn’t do it justice)
front door.
Holy Door is to the right.
looking out over St. Peter’s Square
the guards
sorry, got a bit distracted
proof. I was there.
