Sober Ending

Today we awoke and drove to the of Vatican or as we have heard it as
Vatican City. Many of you have heard of the Vatican more as the place
of the Pope. We went through the Vatican museum and saw art pieces
from Michelangelo and the other guy that is slipping my mind. They
were pretty neat but honestly sewing art isn't my favorite even this
was historical it was cool.

We next went into the Sistene Chapel which hoses wonderful art pieces
on the ceiling of old testament significance. We then made our way in
St. Peterl's Basilica and saw the seat of the pope as this is his
personal worship place seating capacity 60,000 standing. This was a
beautiful church with many ornate statues to dead popes bodies, quite
interesting.

The next part of the day was definitely a culmination of our entire
trip. We headed to the site of Paul's beheading. At this site was a
small section of the original road where Paul walked as we walking on
this road to enter the church it was very emotional. In the church
there are 3 natural springs which is a sign of where Paul's head had
touched ever since then there were these springs. From here we headed
to St. Paul's basilica and saw the burial place of this amazing martyr.

The sobering moment pictured is of the Catacombs. The catacombs were
a place for Christians to bury there families 'cause most of these
believers didn't have money to formally bury. As we walked through we
can sense the presence of God amongst the tombs. One thing you must
know is that Christians didn't fear death like most of the Romans
because they knew something was better coming.

That is surely true today and we must never forget that something
better is to come. Don't quit fighting the good fight of faith.

LA