Welcome to Pilgrim Walks in Rome, your online Catholic pilgrimage guide to discovering and experiencing the Eternal City. Get ready to embark on an inspiring, spiritual, and boldly Catholic romp through the ages as you explore the home of Christianity and the beauty, history, and wonders of Holy Rome!
Welcome to Our Rome Pilgrimage Guide!
Welcome to Pilgrim Walks in Rome, the best online guide for planning, exploring, and enjoying your pilgrimage to Rome. I remember talking to several of my friends who had read Father Chandlery’s famous, turn of the century pilgrimage guide, Pilgrim Walks in Rome. They unanimously commented on the spiritual depth, poetic style, and unabashedly Catholic approach of [...]
Author’s Introduction
O Rome, exceedingly glorified by the triumphs of the Apostles, crowned with the roses of martyrs, all white with the lilies of confessors, adorned with the palms of virgins, strengthened by the merits of all the Saints. O city that enshrinest so many of their holy bodies, all hail to thee ! May thy authority hitherto supported by the dignity and [...]
1. St. Peter in Rome
St. Leo the Great, preaching at St. Peter’s tomb on the Saint’s feast about A.D. 440, speaks as follows: “The spot which has been glorified by the death of the chief of the Apostles, should have the chief place of joy on the (anniversary) day of their martyrdom. For these, O Rome, are the men [...]
2. The Vatican Hill
The considerable stretch of country that lies between the Janiculum and the Milvian bridge (Ponte Molle) on the west bank of the Tiber, was known to the ancients as Colles and Campi Vaticani. The district was crossed by the important roads Via Cornelia, Via Vaticana, Via Aurelia, and was a sort of pleasure ground of [...]
3. The Memoria Over St. Peter’s Tomb Built by Pope St. Anacletus
St. Anacletus, who had been ordained by St. Peter, and who succeeded St. Linus in the Papal See, construxit memoriam, i.e., built a memorial chamber or oratory over the Apostle’s tomb, which remained undisturbed till Constantine replaced it by a rich, vaulted chamber (Confession of St. Peter), when he erected his splendid basilica. Allard shows [...]
News from the Vatican . . .
- Pope: Support the Church in China May 19, 2012This Sunday Pope Benedict XVI called on Catholics worldwide to join in prayer with the Church in China, so that believers of the great nation may become ever more consistent in their witness to the faith. In a series of appeals following the midday recitation of the Regina Caeli prayer, the Holy Father also strongly condemned a bomb attack on a high school i […]
- Economy and politics are in need of gratuitousness May 18, 2012Gratuitousness is not found in the marketplace nor can it be prescribed by the law. However both the economy and politics are need of the gratuitousness of persons capable of mutual self-gift. The Pope said this to representatives of the Ecclesial Movement of Cultural Engagement, the Federation of Christian Organizations of International Volunteer Service an […]
- Catholic unity and new evangelization May 18, 2012The “Catholic unity” as “an essential condition for the fulfilmentof the Church’s mission” was reiterated by the Pope on Friday morning, 18 May, in his Discourse to the last group of Bishops from the United State – regions XIV and XV – on their visit ad limina Apostolorum . The Pontiff said he was particularly pleased at the presence of bishops of the Easte […]
