Outing with the Girls

On Friday, October 25 Dixie, Carline, Patee and I went sight-seeing. Patee has the book that has 24 walking tours in Rome. So we are going to do each one about twice a month. Our first one took us to St. Clements Church, built in the 3rd century. We went to these underground ruins that dated back to the 1st century. They were these Roman houses. Some frescos were still on the wall and fractions of old statues. Unbelievable. We visited San Giovanne again and across the street to the sacred stairs, where Constantine's mother brought back the stairs Jesus walked up in Pontius Pilots house. Today people crawl on them as part of their devotion and penance, I think. Was interesting to see people's faith showing like that.