Arrivederci Roma

I have left Rome and arrived in the Holy Land yesterday.  I am in Nazareth and will be praying at the Shrine of the Annunciation today.  My days in Rome were filled with abundant graces, praying at famous as well as unknown shrines and churches.  The wonderful thing about Rome is that one can wander about, and find hidden treasures everywhere.  In visitng the Church of St. John the Baptist, we discovered the relic of the foot of St. Mary  Magdalene.  Here are some photos of places I prayed at in Rome: the apse mosaics of St. Paul Outside the Walls, the tomb of St. Monica, paintings, mosaics and sculptures of St. John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, mosaics from the Church of Santa Prassede, paintings by Caravaggio of the Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter, the Moses by Michelangelo, and the chains that bound St. Peter before his martyrdom.