Anniversary Vacation

Today is Palm Sunday, so we started the day with 8:00 Mass at the Basilica San Marco. As we enter the church we followed the line of people getting olive branches, so we picked up one. We didn't do any processing with them, but it is what they do. We saw families around town carrying their branches.  I brought a copy of the readings and responses with us, so we could try and follow along. It was impossible to actually respond without knowing the language. We did pick up the Prayer of the Faith response, "Ascoltaci, o Signore," for, "Lord, hear our prayer." As we left Mass we noticed on a table were copies of the readings, in German, English, French, and Spanish. 

After Mass we went to Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. It is a church built as thanks for the city surviving the plague of 1630.

Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute

Then we went to see the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of art. We saw works my Dali, Picasso, and Pollack.

Developable Surface by Antoine Pevsner 1938

The last few day were starting to wear us down, so we stopped in the Camp San Polo, found a table in the sun, and ate a late but very slow lunch
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