Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches

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A preeminent scholar of Catholicism transports readers to Rome for the traditional station churches pilgrimage, offering a vivid and informative guide to the Eternal City and the Lenten season.
The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome’s most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, nowadays’s pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by one of the vital greatest art and architecture of western civilization.

In Roman Pilgrimage, bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries at the pilgrimage’s liturgies, art, and architecture. Through reflections on on a daily basis’s readings about faith and doubt, heroism and weakness, self-examination and conversion, sin and grace, Rome’s familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path, generally unexplored treasures-artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders-appear of their original luster, revealing new dimensions of one of the crucial world’s most intriguing and multi-layered cities.

A compelling guide to the Eternal City, the Lenten Season, and the itinerary of conversion that may be Christian life right through the year, Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith, hope, and love is the template of all true discipleship, as the exquisite great thing about the Roman station churches invites reflection at the deepest truths of Christianity.

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