Yesterday afternoon I planned to walk towards the Pantheon but did a blond thing. I had the map upside down as I left the hotel and happily wandered off in the wrong direction. This make me find a short cut to the Castel S. Angelo and I found the church dedicated to Our Lady of Loretto and what a find it was. The altar is a replica of the altar in Loretto plus a side altar was dedicated to Padre Pio. There were relics and a big wooden statue of S. Padre Pio with Christ.
Today is the feast day of Catherine of Siena. So it was fitting that I went to La Messa at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. There were 24 priests on the altar and 4 bishops and the cathedredal was full. I prayed especially for all you Dominicans today and guess whom I met there? Yes, David. David is the seminarian nephew of Ron and Pat Holland. He was on the way to college and went to pray at the tomb of S. Catherina under the high altar. I just followed him and did the same. Without him I would have never known that there even was a tomb and that one could pray there. This was a nice touch. As it happens the Pantheon sits next to the church and I rolled out and into the other. It is raining and I came back to the hotel. The game plan is to go to the Castel S. Angelo today.
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