The object I chose is a statuette of St. Michael that I got from the Vatican. While I myself am not super religious, I got it on a trip with my grandfather who past away earlier this year. He was born in Sicily and immigrated to the US as a child. He used to go to Italy every year to visit our family that still lives there. Last year I was able to finally go with him. We visited our family in Siracusa for a month before going to Rome to visit more and we just happened to be in Rome for Easter. Being Italian my grandfather was a very strict Roman-Catholic and I got to truly see how much the Church meant to him. We got to watch the Pope do the Stations of the Cross in the Colosseum. On Easter Sunday we went to the courtyard of St. Peter’s Basilica to watch the Pope’s Easter Address. My grandfather had never been to either of these events in his life and at one point during the address, he began to cry. Afterwards he got me the statuette from the Vatican because St. Michael was the Saint who I chose as my confirmation name. I was very close with my grandfather, even more so after that trip, and even though he is gone now, the statuette reminds me of him.
