Long, wonderful day. After a traditional Roman breakfast (standing at a bar eating a pastry and drinking a coffee) we headed out to several churches. Saw San Clemente, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and a couple smaller ones. Good times.
I awarded photo of the day honors to the one above, taken looking down the road from the front of St. John Lateran. What I love about this photo is that it captures something about Rome that I never really appreciated before. It is at once ancient and medieval and modern. It is pagan and Christian and secular. And the saints and their statues, their frescoes, their churches stand in the midst of it at almost every era, and at this point have marked it indelibly. And here is St. Francis boldly (and peacefully) standing in the midst of it all today.
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