Description
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.