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In memoriam …

POPE FRANCIS,ARDEATINE
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Aleteia Image Department - published on 11/03/17
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Photo of the Day: November 3, 2017On November 2, 2017, All Saints Day, Pope Francis leaves white roses on the memorial in the Fosse Ardeatine (Ardeatine Caves), the site of a 1944 massacre carried out by German troops occupying Rome in retaliation for a partisan attack on an SS battalion the day before.

Photograph by Vincenzo Pinto for AFP

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