Pilgrims’ Progress
As Rome prepares to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Christ, it seems fitting to pay attention to the pilgrims who have flocked to one of Christianity’s holiest places through the centuries.
The National Museum of Palazzo Venezia in Rome is mounting “Rome and Jubilee: Pilgrimages to St. Peter’s in the Middle Ages (350-1350),” an exhibit of art, literature and history. It will include more than 200 paintings, relics, mosaics, drawings and pieces of sculpture on loan from museums throughout Italy and the world, and pilgrimage insignia and itineraries.
A section of the exhibit will be devoted to the first Jubilee, or Holy Year, proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII in 1300, as the war- and plague-racked Christian world embarked on a new century and, some believed, stood on the brink of the apocalypse predicted by St. John the Baptist. Sound familiar?
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