Amongst other things, the Rome Marathon being run today caused some small changes to our plans, although in reality I think that we started noticing a contention between our tour guide’s love of history and our party’s Bishop’s love of the divine.

Highlights of the day included seeing (at a distance) and hearing the Pope saying the Angelus in the Piazza outside St Peter’s Basilica.  Top row, second window from the right, if you look hard!

We next visited St Paul’s outside the Walls, where as well as our tour we said mass.

Finally, we ended up at St John Lateran, where due to the time that we arrived, a Sunday evening Mass prevented us from having a full tour.