The saint, whose feast day falls on May 26, also realized that Rome’s people were suffering from a spiritual sickness. Pilgrims pray in front of St. Peter's Basilica (photo: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA / ...
When St. Philip Neri came to Rome from Florence in 1533, he encountered a city in upheaval. The Sack of Rome six years prior had left famine and plague in its wake. The Protestant Reformation was in ...