[Gocamino] [saintjames] Saint James in Rome

Sat Jun 16 09:14:32 PDT 2007

This is an email Rosina sent to Dale:  It seems as though she is answering a
question - but I never did get the original email from Dale in my inbox.
This must be happening on both the St James' group and the Gocamino Group.
Very odd!

On 08/06/07, Blaroli at aol.com <Blaroli at aol.com> wrote:
>
>   Hello Dale and all,
> Yes... there is a Saint James (San Giacomo) Church in the heart of Rome.
> It is located on the "Corso"  (that popular street that runs from the
> Vittorio Emmanuele monument to Piazza del Popolo) a couple of blocks before
> the Piazza. Because of the crowded, narrow, street, and the abundance of
> other churches nearby, San Giacomo is easy to miss, but if you look above
> the main door you'll see a very large Santiago shell carved above the
> entrance.
> The church, like all churches in Rome, is full of unheralded and priceless
> sculptures and paintings, among them a lovely life-size sculpture of Saint
> James not as a pilgrim, but as an Apostle. The statue looks remarkably like
> the beautiful Saint James painted by Leonardo in The Last Supper.
> The Camino friends in Rome often meet there.
> Nearby, close to the tomb of Augustus, and the reopened Ara Ceolis, there
> is a church dedicated to a very special pilgrim: Saint Rocco. I love that
> church.  On August 15 (ferragosto) they have special services which include
> a procession out in the street in which dogs belonging to parishioners take
> place.  Saint Rocco (Roque, Roche) was a French pilgrim quasi-mistic,
> somehow like Saint Francis, who had been a "romero" (pilgrim to Rome) and
> was arrested and beaten in the Italian countryside by some warring factions
> of the time on suspicion of being a spy.
> He was near death hovering in a cave when a dog came by, licked his wounds
> and, for days after, would bring him bread. When San Rocco recovered he
> became a monk dedicated to the care of lepers and other unfortunates.
> On August 15, after Mass, inside of the San Rocco church a little dog
> standing on a chair gives small bread rolls, wrapped in tissue paper, to the
> parishioners.  That is unbelievably touching and it always makes me cry.
> But, inside the church, there is also a small procession in which an arm,
> presumably having belonged to  San Rocco, encased in an elaborate silver and
> jewels "glove", is carried.  I, for one, can't deal with such things, nor do
> I like the fact that the embalmed body of the late Pope John XXIII is now in
> full view inside of Saint Peters.
> (While I dearly love my church, and have always felt unbelievably lucky to
> have been born a Catholic, I would be tempted to join the Polish army and
> invade the Vatican if  plans were made there to exhibit the body of  John
> Paul II.)
>
> There are statues and paintings of Saint James all over Rome, but I don 't
> remember ever seeing one depicting him as a pilgrim; the ones that I have
> seen resemble, one way or another, the Saint James in Leonardo's
> masterpiece.  Besides the statue in Saint Giacomo's, which is striking, the
> one in Saint Paul's Outside the Walls is particularly beautiful.
> Most statues of Saint Rocco do depict him as a pilgrim, with shell, gourd
> and walking stick, a little dog by his side carrying a piece of bread in his
> mouth and Saint Rocco showing a leg wound which the dog reportedly licked
> until it healed.  I wonder whether that dog had a name.
>
> Hugs!
>
> Rosina
>
>
>
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