Above: the interior of Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le mura, built by Pope St. Damasus, before the bombing of 1943. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 Damasus was a Spaniard, a man of eminence and of great learning in the Scriptures, and was elected to the Chair of Peter in the year of our Lord 381…
