Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-02-04
an County Democrat McConnee Ohio Thursday February 1926

with old, old inscriptions on them
Two American students were copy
ing inscriptions. One of them tolt
us he was copying the most famous
because ore of the longest. Prob
ably written over 5000 years ago
We saw class assemble for a lee
ture in medicine. We did not stay
as the Italian language is not oul
preference in seeking information.
Took lovely walk clear around
the town. We were looking for a
church, but got side tracked. We
went around along most interest
ing wall. We walked for three
hours. 1t is lovely place. The
pictures Of it don't do 1t justice
We had a nice dinner and a good
nights rest at the hotel. Mother
knew just enough Italian to keep
the porter from charging us more
than the price the manager had
stipulated for us to pay. He was
not there when we left and no. one
else could speak English or German.
We gave the extra amount that we
thus saved, in tips to the force
who saw us Off Their beaming
faces we will never forget. It's a
real pleasure to give tips to these
poor Europeans.
| don't think many of the citi-
Zens of Perugia went to Rome. Per
haps they hadn't even heard about
holy year; they seemed so out of
connection with the rest of the
world. This may have been the rea-
son we got seats without any trou-
bic or early arrival at the station
We had lovely trip. People on the
train, polite as always. Followed
famous hill town where ST. Fran
els lived. The church built in his
honor is plainly seen from the sta
ton. Loads of priests were going
to the church. On the way to Rome
we saw the ruins of the bridge of
Augustus; Very thrilling to see
these old historical things. like
Rome very much. You can't go a
block hardly without coming upon
some old ruins. Some wonderful
ones right across from the station.
know that week here won't be
nearly enough.
We went right to the English Ii
brary and then to the American one.
| would love to take the American
one back to Vienna with me. Read
what Sculpture to See in Europe"
There are SO many things to see
here--one does not know where to
begin. Went to ST. Pauls Outside
the Walls, one of the four pill
grimage churches. The colonnades
on the outside are perfectly beauti-
ful. The whole thing is very nice.
The pictures of all the popes in
mosaic are around the ceiling. 1
never realized how many there were.
There are extra places for other
popes to come 1t was surprise to
me to see st. Peter the first one of
the group. 1t takes a whole year
to make one of these pictures, to get
all the different colors used. They
must be quite large; they are up so
high that they look the size of
pie pan. There is very old pillar,
all carved with scenes from the life
of Christ-said to have come from
Jerusalem; lovely columns of orien-
tai alabaster presented by the
of Egypt, and malachite ped
estals Ga beautiful green COLOR, by
the former emperor of Russia. Many
of the beautiful art windows were
ruined during the war. A powder
plant exploded too near the church.
The bones OF ST. Paul are said to be
under the high altar. Went through
the holy door,
st. John the Lateran is also
church everyone should see. There
Is too much red drapery, but the
statues Of the apostles are very in
teresting. There are so many pret-
" chapels. My second holy door,
Next to the church are the holy
stairs They are in chapel with
'our parallel stairways. There were
80 many people going up the stairs,
everyone on their knees. Nine years
s taken off purgatory for going up
III their knees. One little pamphlet
We received there said,-nine years
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