Pilgrimage to Italy

Pilgrims fill St. Peter's Square in anticipation of a Wednesday general audience. (Sam Lucero photo)

This week marks the 12th anniversary of a pilgrimage I made to Italy. The event was sponsored by The Compass, where I served as editor until 2022. Leading the pilgrimage was Green Bay’s retired Bishop Robert Banks. The pilgrimage included stops in Rome, Florence, Assisi and Venice. While it was definitely a great spiritual experience, it was also an incredible photographic experience for me.

I decided to share a slideshow of photos in a gallery I created in 2011. Very few folks have seen them. A few were published in The Compass after our return.

In the slideshow below, I have added captions for each photo to describe the scene. (Viewers need to click the ‘i’ in the black bar below the slideshow to read the captions. To pause a photo, click on the two vertical bars ‘||’.)