Sometimes, there is a need to anchor faith to something concrete. The places, where they lived and operated on the saints, for example, still speak today of their testimony of beauty and faith, and somehow invite an always current discernment. The Sant’Ignazio project in Rome was born with this purpose, Pellegrini with the pilgrim who in the year of the Jubilee of Hope, proposes in the Eternal City 45 kilometers of itineraries of spirituality, history and culture, on the steps of Ignazio di Loyola, founding father of the company of Jesus who just lived here for most of his life.
Three main pilgrimages, divided into 37 stagesto which are added eight thematic itineraries (including: the houses, preaching in the streets and churches, the pious works, the places of formation, the sacraments, the cult and the prayer, the pope and the church.) To permanently enhance the places where he lived and worked the Spanish saint. Made by Ignazian itineraries and born thanks to the collaboration between the Veritas Cultural Center and the Ignatian Center of Spirituality of the Euromediternaea province of the Company of Jesusthe project is an immersion journey into the genius loci of the Ignazian places, also thanks to the use of digital means. The innovative approach allows you to combine tradition and technology and to build pilgrimages and itineraries also independently. Among the tools put in the field there are; A map of digitized Rome, a network of bessal twenty bronze (in the form of the ancient Roman bricks) equipped with Qcode that refer to multimedia content and positioned in key places in the city, and an interactive site from which it is possible to download the eBook guide with seedlings, audio, podcasts, meditations and history of the Ignazian places.
“The goal – explains Francesca Giani, coordinator of Ignazian itineraries – is to accompany the pilgrims to the spiritual discovery of the places of Rome where they lived Sant’Ignazio di Loyola and the first companions who arrived with the desire to live in Jerusalem to assist the souls and better serve the Lord Jesus. But after a discernment they established in Rome, where they founded the company. way of life of the first fathers helps to understand the process of discernment they implemented and can suggest the method with which to discern the will of God in our life “.
At the presentation of the project at the Gregorian Pontifical University, Don Michele Gianola, Undersecretary of the CEI and interim director of the office for the pastoral care of free time, tourism and sport that greeted with gratitude the birth of the project since he remembered, his vocation was born just after an experience of Ignaziano discernment and underlined how the theme of the path can be an experience of a privileged faith that has been a very privileged experience that has been very privileged, developing.
