Members of the community of Sant’egidio organized their traditional Christmas lunch for Rome’s needy and poor.
Volunteers delivered gifts and meals to people sitting socially distanced in the stunning setting of the church of Santa maria in Trastevere.
The Rome-based lay movement of Sant’egidio was founded in the late 1960s and has been nominated several times for the Nobel peace prize for its work with the poor.
The Christmas lunch with the poor is a tradition of the community of Sant’egidio since 1982, when a small group of poor people was welcomed at the banquet table in the basilica of Santa maria in Trastevere.
There were about 20 people invited which includes some elderly friends of the neighbourhood and some homeless people from the streets of Rome.
