If you have the chance to go on a pilgrimage or even visit a saint’s tomb in a nearby church, don’t miss the opportunity. It can truly put things in perspective.
Italy is on the bucket list of almost (if not every) Catholic. Beyond the Vatican, the heart of the Church, the country is also home to various places that played a part in the history of the Church and the lives of countless saints.
I was very excited to go for the first time, not only because I was going with friends and our parish priest, but because it was a pilgrimage centered on sacred art, which would allow us to immerse ourselves more deeply in the beauty that lifts our gaze to God when our words, and even our prayers, seem unable to express what we want to say.
I was also eager to visit many saints: St. John Bosco and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati in Turin; St. Francis, St. Clare and St. Carlo Acutis in Assisi; St. Peter and so many others in Rome. To non-Catholics, visiting the tombs of people we don’t know personally might seem strange or even morbid, but for me, it reflects the
