Another sunday in Rome. The most memorable parts were going to the ignatius rooms, aka the rooms that St. Ignanius of Loyola lived, worked, wrote, studied in. The Ignatius of Loyola that my school is named after, yea him. Well we got to see his study, a bust of his head and his chapel, which is also the room that he died in. There was definitely something special about being in the same room that Ignatius lived in and died in. We have literally been in so many places that historical figures were, like people that I have read about and learned about, I've been where they lived! It is such a weird and awesome feeling to be able to say that.
After being in the Ignatius rooms, we went right next door to mass in the Basilica de Gesu(Jesuit.) I think this may have been the most beautiful church that I have ever been in. Don't get me wrong St. Peter's Basilica is obviously beautiful as well, but this church was just my personal favorite, I realized this during mass.
As I sat through mass, trying to catch different words in Italian to understand where we were in the mass and going over the past week's events I looked up (also, because you can't leave an Italian church without looking up.) When I looked up I saw something that amazed me. There were statues that were carved into the ceiling and were literally 3D or 4D actually. They were on the ceiling and the sides of the walls, but they weren't into the wall they were freestanding off of the wall. It was breathtaking. The more I looked around the more of these statues I saw, they were all over the ceiling and the upper part of the walls. After I got over the inital amazement I went back to paying close attention to mass, but afterwards I continued to marvel at these structures. They were so unique and exquisitely beautiful.
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