Always Happy

That's one rendition from the Latin of the names of our two saints, Perpetua and Felicity, celebrating their feast day today. Another possibility might be 'continuously lucky' (as in perpetually felicitous), but it doesn't quite have the same tone.

Our station church today was San Eusebio, which translated from the Latin means Saint Eusebius. Remarkably, compared to our other martyrs, he dies later, in 357. Constantine made Christianity legal in 313. Who killed Eusebius?

Yesterday we saw the church where preparations for the Nicene Council were made--the council which formulated the statement of faith held by all Catholics. Holding to that statement, Saint Eusebius reveals, remains continually hazardous. In his case he lived when the popular thing was a revision of Christianity called Arianism, and unfortunately for Eusebius, the emperor of the Empire, called Constantinius, went over to this up and coming movement. Constantinius therefore wasn't a big fan of what Nicea had formulated, and since Eusebius was, Constantinius condemned him to death by starvation.

Speaking of being very hungry, everything's bigger in Texas, so it's appropriate that San Eusebio is now the titular church of new cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who first visited his new home away from home February 20th.

Our church just after the station Mass:


























Today was our third morning with rain.











A gritty morning.




San Eusebio is located between Rome's main train station, Termini, and the basilica of Maria Maggiore, which we passed on our trail.










We were at Mary Major's on February 13th.