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To: metmom
Is his bedroom not located in THIS building?

Sorry, metmom, but you have the wrong building.

The Domus Sanctæ Marthæ (Latin for Saint Martha's House) is a building completed in 1996 adjacent to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Built during the reign of Pope John Paul II, it functions as a guest house for clergy having business with the Holy See, and as the hotel residence of the members of the College of Cardinals when they are participating in a papal conclave to elect a new pope. Pope Francis made it his home on being elected in 2013.

The building replaced the St. Martha Hospice built in 1891 during a cholera epidemic for Pope Leo XIII that was dedicated to the sick in neighborhoods around the Vatican. During World War II the earlier structure was used by refugees, Jews, and ambassadors from countries that had broken diplomatic relations with Italy.

Francis’ alarm clock goes off at 4:45 every morning in room 201 in St. Martha’s House, when everything is still pitch black. The first few hours of Francis’ day are dedicated to prayer and meditation on the Readings.


Here is the Chapel


Here is the Dining Room

600 posted on 08/28/2013 6:08:38 PM PDT by NYer ( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
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To: NYer

More?


659 posted on 08/28/2013 8:03:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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