The semester for the CUA Rome Program ended on Friday, April 29. Along with 3 billion others, we watched the Royal Wedding live on TV. The next morning, we drove across Italy to the Adriatic coast where Susie had booked us a lovely self-catering flat in the tiny seashore village of Numana. Our balcony gave us a fine view of the sea, the sandy beach, and the picturesque Conero Peninsula rising almost 1900 feet above the sea.Our flat served as the perfect base of operations for day trips. Our first trip took us through Loreto to the town of Jesi. Legend has it that in 1294, angels carried the House of the Virgin Mary from the Holy Land to Loreto. About 3 million visitors a year now come to Loreto to venerate the Sacred House.
Jesi is a medieval hill town a few miles inland from the coast. We were lucky enough to run into another local festival: the celebration of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the local parish church. After a brief worship service, there was a procession through the streets of the town. Members of various religious societies, priests and friars, town officials, pious laypeople, and the town band accompanied an effigy of the Virgin through the streets.
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