{"id":5467,"date":"2025-12-03T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:26:23","slug":"st-luke-pilgrimage-to-italy-day-5-november-14th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=5467","title":{"rendered":"St. Luke Pilgrimage to Italy, Day 5 \u2014 November 14th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

After breakfast (Nick chose a fruit tart and I, granola, that again, was not like I make it at home, but was enjoyable), we were back on the bus. It’s likely that you knew \u00a0that \u00a0Pompeii<\/em> was a buried \u00a0city, but did you know that it was a city within the city of Pompei<\/em>? We didn’t.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>The Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei is a major Catholic pilgrimage site that was \u00a0founded by Bartolo Longo in 1876. \u00a0A cathedral that was built to house a painting of the Madonna, the sanctuary has grown into a papal basilica famous for hosting large crowds. We were absolutely amazed by the mosaics it held. We joined many of the people in the pews as they prayed the rosary.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We met our new guide, Massimo, who was very thorough and spoke English so well that his personality \u00a0was evident. \"\"<\/a>Off we went to Pompeii. Nick and I had been to Pompeii in 2014, but none of what we saw then was familiar now. The museum that is \"\"<\/a>located directly on the site of Pompeii, \u00a0called the Pompeii Antiquarium<\/em>, \u00a0was especially new to us. \u00a0It showcases artifacts excavated from the ancient city, including plaster casts of victims. The Naples National Archaeological Museum holds the majority of the most valuable artifacts like frescoes and mosaics from Pompeii \u00a0that were removed for preservation. Nevertheless, we \u00a0had excellent descriptions of life in Pompeii before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We went to lunch at a restaurant called Vittoria (<\/em>my daughter’s middle name, named for Nick’s grandmother)<\/i>. There was a choice of salad with fries, calamari, spaghetti Bolognese, pizza, or chicken salad. Being that Naples is \u00a0the birthplace of pizza, I selected that. The Margarita pizza was designed in 1889 \u00a0to honor Queen Margarita by containing \u00a0the colors of the Italian flag, which are red, white and green. Red was represented by \u00a0tomato, white by mozzarella, and green by basil. My pizza was a crust topped with tomato and mozzarella. Much has changed in the world since \u00a0Nick’s and my grandparents arrived in New York from various parts of \u00a0Italy in the early 1900s. As a child in my grandmother’s kitchen, I never imagined that pizza would not only be known throughout America, but it would \u00a0become one of America’s favorite foods.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Stefano drove our bus high up into the hills, where we had an excellent view of the harbor \u00a0of Naples below. \u00a0That was where Nick’s and my ancestors, as well as those of millions of others, boarded ships \u00a0that departed from their homeland \u00a0for America so long ago. Massimo mentioned several famous Americans who were from Naples, and I think I surprised him when I knew \u00a0that Sophia Loren’s birth surname was Scicolone.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I so enjoyed the day. \u00a0Back in our hotel room, I splashed my face with water and suddenly I was struck by an urgent need to use the bathroom. Nick went downstairs for dinner, but that was impossible for me. When he returned, I made the mistake of asking him what he had eaten for dinner. It was manicotti stuffed with prosciutto in a b\u00e9chamel sauce. Nick brought up a serving that the kitchen had prepared for me. I learned that \u00a0two of our friends had suffered the same illness as I.<\/p>\n

I have been ill \u00a0with different issues while traveling before, but when that happened \u00a0I was always able to stay in bed for the day, when normalcy would return. Our group was leaving the next morning. What would happen if those of us who were sick were not well enough to leave our bathrooms? Fortunately, we were all feeling better when it was time to depart.<\/p>\n

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After breakfast (Nick chose a fruit tart and I, granola, that again, was not like I make it at home, but was enjoyable), we were back on the bus. It’s likely that you knew \u00a0that \u00a0Pompeii was a buried \u00a0city, but did you know that it was a city within the city of Pompei? We … Continue reading St. Luke Pilgrimage to Italy, Day 5 \u2014 November 14th, 2025<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilgrimage-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}