num_pages: 464
description: A preeminent scholar of Catholicism transports readers to Rome for the traditional station churches pilgrimage offering a vivid and informative guide to the Eternal City and the Lenten season.The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway today's pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of western civilization.In Roman Pilgrimage  bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel art historian Elizabeth Lev and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries on the pilgrimage's liturgies art and architecture. Through reflections on each day's readings about faith and doubt heroism and weakness self-examination and conversion sin and grace Rome's familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path typically unexplored treasures-artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders-appear in their original luster revealing new dimensions of one of the world's most intriguing and multi-layered cities.A compelling guide to the Eternal City the Lenten Season and the itinerary of conversion that is Christian life throughout the year Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith hope and love is the template of all true discipleship as the exquisite beauty of the Roman station churches invites reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.
language: English
title: Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches
publisher: Basic Books