Susan the Human

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Who is The Human?
Susan the Human is agent and manager to Pesky the Rat and Janet the Snake. Desperate for an outlet to express her more human-oriented views, she created a web page. Unfortunately, Janet the Snake ate it. So she created another one. This one is snake-proofed.

Originally from the redwood forests of central and Northern California, Susan the Human now lives with various lethal and non-lethal beasts in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Road Trip Diary 2004

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Go to Part 9: Petrified Forest, AZ; Zuni, NM; El Morro & El Malpais Nat'l Parks, NM. 
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Go to Part 7: Silverton-Durango Railroad, CO
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Go to Part 3: Taos, NM
Go to Part 2: Santa Fe and Las Vegas, NM
Go to Part 1: Albuquerque and Carlsbad, NM

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A Week in Rome: St. Peter in Chains
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 12/8/04
A Week in Rome: The Pantheon
 12/6/04
A Week in Rome: The Forum
 12/3/04
A Week in Rome: Palatine Hill
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A week in Rome: The Colosseum
 11/30/04
A week in Rome: Introduction
 11/28/04
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 11/17/04
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The real Pesky the Rat
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 10/27/04
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 10/21/04
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 9/8/04
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 9/1/04
Goddess
 8/31/04
Togetherness at Pier 39
 8/30/04
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 8/29/04
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
A Week in Rome: St. Peter in Chains

Previous installments:
Introduction
The Colosseum
Palatine Hill
The Forum
The Pantheon
The Vatican Museum

Rome is the city where much of the stuff you read about in myth, legend, and various holy books sits in front of you, mugging for pictures. Walking about town the city you stumble on not small moments in history, but very, very big ones.  In an odd corner, up some stairs, and on a hill is St. Peter in Chains church, where the "actual" chains that held St. Peter during his imprisonment are kept. I don't know the veracity of the claim, but it was clear it was taken very seriously by both the church and the pilgrims who came to see them. The church itself is nice, but nothing extraordinary by Rome's standards.

But just standing there, thinking that there is a tiny chance those very chains just might have been the same ones worn by Peter during the darkest days of his life, 2,000 years ago--it sends chills up the spine, it does.

7:10:55 AM  


 

 

 

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