Salus Populi Romani icon after restoration, completed by the work of the Vatican Museum conservators in 2018. Photo: Public Domain. In the days when one could, I used to go to the Holy Land on my own for a week in January. It was a lot quieter, and there were no queues for the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or the Nativity church in Bethlehem. One year, I was staying in a no-frills hotel in Tiberias,…
