AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY presents R R OM E Lasting impressions from the 2014 class trip M C A T HOL I C N “It is endless in this city: wherever we walk, we put our feet upon some piece of history.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Finibus 5.2.5

CANIZARO LIBRARY January 19 - March 27, 2015 R R OM E Lasting impressions from the 2014 class trip M In addition to a linguistic formation in the best of the C A T HOL I C humanistic tradition—the course reader in 2014 included selections from Petrarch, Martial, Thomas Aquinas, Cicero, N Augustine, Vergil, Jerome, Ovid, Gregory the Great, Pliny, Prudentius, Juvenal, Leo the Great, Seneca, Leo XIII, “It is endless in this city: wherever we walk, we put our Suetonius, Damasus, Horace, Benedict, Sallust, Ambrose, feet upon some piece of history.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, and many other authors lesser known or anonymous—the the greatest stylist of the Latin language, penned these words course participants also have an opportunity to meet the which so very well describe the Eternal City. In offering a Rome of the present day. Former AMU students, clergy, study trip to Rome, the Department of Classics & Early and curial officials, all of whom live and work in the city, Christian Literature wants students inestimably enhance this trip. to experience something of this In 2014 the course participants endless history in the best possible had private meetings with His way, through an encounter with Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal the Latin literature of the saints, Burke, then Prefect of the Supreme poets, and philosophers who made Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Rome renowned, read in the places Msgr. Wojciech Giertych, where they penned their works, theologian of the papal household, sitting at the sites that their words and Msgr. Daniel Gallagher of the bring to life. Latin section in the Secretariat of State’s office. Mr. David Martinez, In the period of ten very full days, an AMU alumnus, guided the AMU’s students visit an incredible visit to the excavations beneath St. number of places within Rome and Peter’s Basilica and to the Vatican even a few without: the Gianicolo Museums. Hill and churches in Trastevere, such as Santa Maria and Santa Last and certainly not least, what Cecilia, Tre Fontane, where St. for others would be merely an Paul was martyred and St. Paul’s intense ten day period of study Outside the Walls where St. Paul is is also for Ave Maria’s students a buried, Santa Maria Maggiore, the time of pilgrimage to the tombs Case Romane on the Caelian Hill, of martyrs and saints, to the very San Clemente and the excavations foundation of the Church on earth to the 1st century AD street level when they pray within sight of St. beneath it, St. Peter’s Basilica Peter’s bones. The lodging for the and the excavations to St. Peter’s trip is but a five minute walk from tomb beneath it, the Vatican Museums, Monte Cassino, St. Peter’s Basilica, enabling students to attend daily Mass in Roccasecca and Fossanova (where St. Thomas Aquinas was the morning at the basilica. In 2014 the trip coincided with born and died), the catacombs on the Appian Way and the the Feast of Corpus Christi; students were thus able not Church of the Quo Vadis, Santa Maria sopra Minerva and only to read St. Thomas’ Eucharistic hymns, but later in the the Pantheon, San Luigi dei Francesi with its paintings of same day to sing them at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in St. Matthew by Caravaggio, Ostia with its miles of well- the midst of a Latin liturgy that would have been familiar preserved Roman ruins, Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill, to those present on the same feast in 1616 when the church the North American College, and many others. was consecrated. – Joseph Yarbrough Learn more about Classics at AMU! classics.avemaria.edu