OLPS 1866 - 2016 CSsR Part 3

OLPS 1866 - 2016 CSsR Part 3...

Santa Maria sopra Minerva

A tour of the city was arranged for Thursday and in the late morning we stopped for Mass at theDominicanChurch, Sancta Maria Sopra Minerva.The significance of this church for us was that it was there that St Alphonsus was ordained a bishop in 1762. Bishop Ralph introduced the Mass by saying: “Today one reluctant bishop pays homage to another!”

The confreres processing for the mass

Mr Eddie Loughton reading

Fr Richard Reid CSsR preaching - with Michelangelo's Redeemer behind him!

At the Altar where St Alphonsus was ordained a Bishop

The Pantheon

Piazza Navona

At the end of the tour we went to the Basilica of St John Lateran (the Pope’s own Cathedral) and its special significance in relation to the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, is that originally Mary had revealed that she wished her image to be honoured between this and the Basilica of St Mary Major at the other end of the Via Merulana... to be continued...