DEGLI ULTIMI

ROME– The bond between Acea Run Rome The Marathon and Athletica Vaticana, the sports club of Città del Vaticano. is increasingly stronger and more important. In order to prepare physically and spiritually, to the programmed edition for the morning of Sunday 19th March 2023, starting at 8:00 AM, several initiatives were programmed to give a unique big hug to the marathoners from all over the world and to the poor hosted by Elemosineria Apostolica and by Sant’Egidio’s community in Palazzo Migliori (next to Piazza san Pietro). These will be moments of true sport, friendship, inclusion and mutual enrichment.

We also expect to have a meeting with the Santo Padre who has always proved himself to be a great lover of sports and of the marathon. So Papa Francesco cheered the marathons in 2022 during the Angelus in Piazza San Pietro: “I welcome the participants of the Marathon of Rome this year; thanks to the initiative of Athletica Vaticana several athletes have been involved in solitary projects. Congratulations. “

The first appointment is on Thursday 9th March at 6:00 PM at Dispensario Pediatrico “Santa Marta” in Vaticano.

Suora Anna Luisa Rizzello, Manager of the Dispesary, Athletica Vaticana will be participating, with the representants of Palazzo Migliori, a Reception Center for the poor, opened by Elemosineria Apostolica and entrusted to Sant’Egidio’s Community.

The title of the night will be ‘sport as light, life and redemption”, and in order to bring their witness of life and sport there will be the athletes Annalisa Minetti, singer, actress, model and, marathoner and Paralympic athlete, the marathoner of Athletica Vaticana Sara Vargetto, the ultramarathoner three times world champion Giorgio Calcaterra and the journalist and writer Roberto Di Sante.

GET READY - On Saturday 11th

March Get Ready, the last group training for the marathon will exceptionally take place in Vaticano - Piazza San Pietro and it will involve the poor of Sant’Egidio’s Community, by the side of hundreds of athletes

Grace Of The Marathoner

According to tradition, on Saturday 18th March at 6:00 PM in Chiesa Degli Artisti (Piazza del Po- polo) the Prayer of the Marathoner will take place. The cardinal José Toletino de Mendonca is chairing, prefect of the Dicaster for culture and education and the choir of Roman diocese will animate the celebration. At the end of the celebration the Prayer of the Marathoner and the blessing of the athletes will take place, with a particular prayer for peace, also through sport experience.

FRIDAY 17TH MARCH – 6.30 PM -Dinner with the poor in Palazzo Migliori with the organizers of Acea Run Rome The Marathon for an important hug and greet in the days of a big international sports event.