St. Paul Without The Walls, 2017

We visited St. Paul Without The Walls for the first time in 2013, and I was very much impressed, as my posts from then suggest: http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/11/basilica-of-st-paul-outside-walls.html, and http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2013/11/basilica-of-st-paul-outside-walls-2.html. It is the fourth of the four papal churches in Rome, and, despite its relative age and grandeur, probably the least visited. Our departure packing was going well, so we took off a little time to visit it once more.

Portraits of the popes adorn the walls above the arches

Huge beautiful alabaster windows

Room only for six more popes...

After Francis

The giant Pantokrator mosaic

Starboard altar

Ceiling in the transepts

Beautiful marquetry

Looking astern from abaft the beam

Starboard aisle

Most helpful model ever, so far

You can walk through it

We tarried and then stayed for an organ recital by a young
Vietnamese sister; a nice finish to Rome for 2017