Italy--Summer 2005 / it_img_1429

Scala Santa

These are supposedly the steps that Christ climbed on the way to his trial in Pontius Pilate's palace in Jerusalem. They were brought to Rome by Emperor Constantine's mother (circa 313 A.D.). Pilgrims, like these, climb the stairs on their knees (the real marble stairs are covered in wood). Claudia and I walked up the less-divine stairs on the other side of the wall.