More pictures from Rome!

We have safely arrived in Barcelona and will tour a little of the city first thing tomorrow morning before catching a train to Madrid at 3 in the afternoon. The Internet connection at our hotel is pretty good, and so I've been able to upload a few more pictures of our time in Rome for you to peruse.

Remember, click on the picture to see it in it's entirety!

I hope to be able to upload a few more before I go to bed at midnight!

Peace,

David



The Trevi Fountain



Looking up the Spanish Steps, so called because the Spanish embassy to the Holy See is located in a small piazza to the left



Looking down to the street below from the top of the Spanish Steps. A popular place to hang out in Rome. Name brand shopping also happens to be near by...



For Collin, being at the top of the Spanish Steps just wasn't quite high enough...



The Church of the Holy Trinity, at the top of the Spanish Steps. Commissioned by King Louis XII of France...



We need your diamonds! That's the only way this sarcophagus of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, was crafted out of this precious piece of granite. St. Helena is no longer in the sarcophagus, which is now on display in the Vatican Museum (the sarcophagus, not the body!)...



The atrium of St. Paul Outside the Walls, one of the four major basilica's of Rome...



Interior of St. Paul Outside the Walls. Only the arch, apse, and canopy over the high altar remain from the 1823 fire (Paul's tomb, beneath the high altar is of course intact, as is the large candle stick for the Paschal Candle, a real treasure of Roman marble craftsmen from the 13th century). The arch is 5th century; the apse is 13th century. The canopy over the high altar is gothic in design and dates from the 13th century...



We prayed before the tomb of the Apostle Paul in the confessio directly below the high altar...



Side altar in one of the basilica's transepts made of lapis lazuli, an extremely precious stone donated toward the rebuilding of the basilica after the 1823 fire by the Russian Czar Nicholas I.

More pictures are coming!

David