We have made some great friends in the Rome 3rd ward.
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| Birthday celebration Doris Odemwingie |
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| Billy Kennedy |
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| Barbecue with Shinneys, Milchiore, S.Andrew & Paola Romagnoli |
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| Dexter, Joyce, Shinneys (new couple), Sharon, Andrews |
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| Elisabeta, Andrews, Maurizio |
Maurizio
We finally had
a lunch appointment with Maurizio, a young 22-year-old student we met about a 10
months ago when we were walking at the park. His
mother Elisabeta made us a delicious meal. Maurizio and his mother told us
about LDS missionaries from America that they had met 8 years ago. They had fond
memories of them but had lost contact with them. We were happy to
finally make the connection.
Visiting Villa Borghese
The Villa Borghese museum is amazing with many of the works of Bernini, who began the Baroque Period in sculpture with his realistic statues. Some of the famous ones we saw were his David, Apollo and Daphne, and The Abduction of Proserpine. There were also paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Correggio. We enjoyed walking through the gigantic Borghese Park and bought a Panini from a vender.
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| David |
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| Abduction of Proserpine |
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| Daphne & Apollo |
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| David |
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| Julie in front of Villa Borghese Museum |
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| Front of St. Paul's Basilica |
St. Paul's 'Outside the Walls' Basilica
We drove on the Appian Way south of Rome to see St Paul’s ‘Outside the Walls’ Basilica. It is one of the four churches that make up the Vatican. The others are St. Peter’s Basilica, San Giovanni in Laterno, and Santa Maria Maggiore. We wanted to see it before we left Rome. It is very large—second only to St. Peter’s. The history of Paul’s martyrdom and burial there is also very interesting.
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| Greg & interior of St. Paul's Basilica |
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| Keat's Gravesite near Pyramid |
We also visited Rome’s Protestant Cemetery where the famous British poets John Keats and Percy Shelley, who lived in Rome, were buried.
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| Pyramid in Rome |
