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“We have the Apostle’s DNA deep inside….”
13th June, 2009 - Posted by Archbishop Mark - 7 Comments
Today I moved from the Beda College to the English College villa at Palazzola in the Alban Hills just outside Rome. I thought a day or two in the hills breathing a different air might help to fine-tune my preparations for the Pilgrimage. I’ve lived up in this part of the world before when I was a chaplain to the Marist Brothers in Nemi just down the road from where I am now. That was years ago when I was doing my doctorate. But I learned to loved this part of the world, the Castelli Romani as they call it in Italian. It’s only a stone’s throw away from Rome, but it’s another planet. I can remember driving back here in summer after meals in Rome, and you could feel the air cooling and drying as you rose into the hills back to the Castelli. In the hills here there are two lakes - the bigger Lake Albano where I am now and the smaller Lake Nemi just down the road where I used to be. Just across the lake from Palazzola lies Castelgandolfo where the Pope has his summer villa.
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