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Audience papale Eh oui!
Hier, nous avons eu la surprise de recevoir 2 billets gratuits pour assister à l'audience papale de ce matin. Eh oui, nous avons vu le Pape, le Très Saint Père. Nous étions dans l'auditorium du Vatican où il est venu pour une audience publique à 10h30 am.
Nous sommes arrivés au Vatican vers 9h00 et il y avait déjà une foule immense. Mais on avait nos billets et nous sommes entrés. Nous avions des places assises mais non réservées donc on s'asseoyait où ...
A spiritual and artistic quest
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Ceiling of the nave.
Right transept, with doors leading to chapels and the cloisters.
St. Paul's Basilica
After his execution and burial in Rome in the ...
Rome - 2nd week
so. some exciting news, kind of. last week part of what i was doing what editing the articles on their website (http://www.csdinitiative.org/) and checking grammar and sentence construction and such. well i found some mistakes and when i went to the girl im working with about it we changed them right there and now the errors i pointed out on the website are ...
Much Needed Updates From the Eternal City
... the skin, chopped them, and then added them to a frying pan with browned garlic. Once those were done we blended the mix in a food processor to make a smoother texture. Then we placed the involtini in the sauce and popped them into the oven to cook. The other groups made sauteed artichokes and potatoes for the appetizer, penne pasta with a four cheese sauce (I forgot to e-mail him saying I was lactose, oops) for the first course, and apple strudel for the dessert. It was such ...
Musei Vaticani and St. Peter’s Basilica
... which contributed significant funds for the Chapel’s restoration.
We also viewed the Stanze di Raffaello, or Raphael Rooms, which were amazing. These rooms where the private apartment of Pope Julius II, and in 1508 he commissioned the then 25 year old Raphael to decorate them.
There were many other galleries which we traversed – too much to take in to be honest, and after 3 ½ hours, we found ourselves in ...