She is famous for a number Augustine never wrote In a rented room at Ostia, the port of Rome, a woman of 56 lay dying a long way from the country where she was born. She told her two sons not to trouble themselves about where they buried her. Lay this body anywhere. Only remember … Read more
How a wealthy skeptic’s twenty-minute encounter with the Virgin Mary in a Roman churchtransformed him from fierce opponent to devoted priest In the bustling streets of nineteenth-century Rome, countless visitors wandered through ancientchurches as mere tourists, admiring art and architecture with detached curiosity. But on Januarytwentieth, eighteen forty-two, one such visitor experienced something that would … Read more
