The Coliseum is where the Holy Father celebrates the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. At night. It is a powerful scene always, and Fr. Barron in this video explains why. When you visit the Colosseum on any other day except Good Friday, almost invariably, you will be told by your tour guide that the Colosseum was a not a major place of the persecution of Christians. They will tell you instead that it was the Church who did violence to the monument of the history of Rome by 'stealing' the marble from the Colosseum to build St. Peter's. On Good Friday, however, a different story is told at the Colosseum. It is a story of how love and forgiveness overcome the power of violence, and endure longer than any human empire. See what you think.
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