Along the Quirinale Way -- Updated

From Santa Maria della Vittoria I went down the Via del Quirinale toward the big white monument to Victor Emmanuelle.  I stopped in several churches along the way to pray.  It was about a mile walk.

The churches included San Carlino alle Quattro Fontane.  It was at the intersection of Via del Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale.

At that intersection are four reliefs carved into the buildings.  Below is one of the four.
 

 

 

I also stopped in San Andrea al Quirinale, but it was under major renovation, and the Blessed Sacrament was not present.  Then I came upon Santa Maria di Loreto, out of the blue.  I was on my way to "The Jesu," which is the home of the Jesuit order.  The Jesu was nearly as crowded as St Peter's had been on Tuesday, and was a very beautiful church. 

 

From the Jesu I tried to find San Marco which was only a couple of blocks from the Jesu.  I asked someone outside the Jesu where San Marco was and they couldn't tell me.  When I got back near the big white monument to Victor Emmanuelle, I asked someone else since I knew I was near it.  The person I asked had never even heard of San Marco.  It was on the other side of a small park.

 

The only person in San Marco was a nun who was praying before an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

The Chapel at Walsh University is named Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Relief of the Good Shepherd

San Marco

 

Interior of San Marco

 

 

Around a second park outside, next to the big white monument, was Santa Maria in Aracoeli.  It has a big staircase leading to the entrance.  From the area outside the main entrance to Santa Maria in Aracoeli, you can see the Piazza del Campidoglio, which was designed by Michaelangelo.

 

View of the Piazza del Campidoglio

from Santa Maria in Aracoeli

 

The building you can see facing the piazza is the Capitoline Museum, where the bronze statue of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus is located.  In addition there is a huge gold plated bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius mounted on a horse.

 

The statue of the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus was originally just a bronze statue of a she-wolf dating from the Etruscans.  The Romans added the figures of Romulus and Remus a few centuries BC.  The city of Rome Italy donated a replica of the statue of the wolf with Romulus and Remus to the city of Rome NY, and it is presently in front of The Beeches.





Updated:
In the southeast corner of Piazza del Campidoglio, as seen in the picture above, straight ahead towards the middle of the picture, is a short narrow street that goes to the ancient Roman Forum.  My next set of pictures are of it.