Every two years we do this marvelous pilgrimage and Saint Paul Mediterranean Cruise through Italy, Greece, and Turkey. We will be hitting 15 biblical sites along the way. The group arrived today and everyone’s excited to get going.
We started out by visiting Tre Fontane, which in Italian means “Three Fountains” where Saint Paul was beheaded and his head bounced three times and springs of water bubbled up from the ground each time his head bounced.
Then to “Saint Paul Outside the Walls, the 2nd largest church in Rome and the place where his bones are in interred. Then to Saint John Lateran which is the “Mother Church of the World“.
This church contains the Heads of Peter and Paul in gold reliquaries above the altar the table used for the Last Supper, with the Chair of St. Peter in the apse. This is the cathedral of Rome and we had Mass here before checking in to our elegant Michelangelo Hotel, 8 minutes walk to St. Peter’s. Sumptuous dinner and got everyone to bed early.