Thursday, November 6, 2014

The Bombing of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome

One of the VII Pilgrimage Churches in the Holy City.

Bombed on July 19, 1943.  The entire ceiling and front portico were destroyed.  

Da Pacem Domine in Diebus Nostris.

The priest who was the first responder is still living, born in 1916, he is now almost 100 years old.  Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini, the last cardinal born in Rome.    

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