Saint Lawrence in Piscibus Rome
Although it is located a short walk from St. Peter's Basilica, and despite the thousands of people who pass by, San Lorenzo in Piscibus is a church that cannot be found by accident, but must be searched for. And in Rome, a city of churches, many manage to find it.
It is a small and simple church dating from the 12th century, whose focus is directly on the Blessed Sacrament within the Tabernacle.
The presiding cross is that of Saint Damien, a replica of the one that hangs in the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Assisi, Italy, believed to be the cross that Saint Francis prayed earlier when he received God's request to rebuild the Church.
The facade of San Lorenzo in Piscibus was hidden when the Borgo neighborhood that surrounded the Vatican was destroyed between 1930 and 1940 to build the Via della Conciliazione. But the church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus was not only preserved from this demolition, it was returned to what is believed to be its original appearance, a Romanesque style of bare stone.
The San Lorenzo Center was founded by Pope Saint John Paul II, who thought that it could be put at the service of youth. He re-consecrated the church with a special mass in March 1983.
In this place, young Romans and other Pererinos can come to pray, mass and other spiritual and social activities.
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