Afoot in the Eternal City
The authors continue: The station church pilgrimage brings together for daily Mass seminarians, student-priests, faculty members and graduate students from Roman seminaries and pontifical universities, diplomats, undergraduates from the Rome campuses of American colleges, and officials of the Roman Curia." The pilgrimage pauses here on Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent -- the stational church of St. Lawrence in Damaso, former site of the home of Pope Damasus I (364-384), who was a principal figure in the history of the Roman martyrs.