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March 2, 2008
This Way to the Miraculous Statue!
I went to Sta Maria in Aracoeli today for the first time this trip - if you've ever climbed those stairs you'll know why I was putting it off until I needed to go for class prep! No pictures of the interior, much as I love it, other than this awful 1960s sign (at least I always think of them as 1960s - maybe they're 50s?) pointing to the chapel with the miraculous statue of the Infant Jesus. It oozes oil or some such and wears a particularly horrid 19th Century crown, but when taken to hospitals there are occasional miraculous cures. Me, I prefer the image of the Virgin on the high altar, but I didn't take a picture of it.
It was a beautiful morning on the Capitoline, though - just gorgeous. Click and see.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 2, 2008 12:56 PM