Max Angeloni - Fotografo professionista

GIUBILEO

Castel Sant’Angelo and St. Peter’s Basilica are separated by just a few hundred meters. From above, the statue of St. Michael the Archangel watches millions of people heading toward Bernini’s colonnade.
Pilgrims, tourists, onlookers, secular and religious prelates, and faithful of every confession, ethnicity, and origin.
It is 2025, and to label the Jubilee as a strictly Catholic event would be a very superficial interpretation.
The meeting of cultures—often profoundly different and not necessarily connected to faith—creates a heterogeneous mixture capable of telling stories of distant lives and emotions that appear, only at first glance, dissonant.
Yet, on closer thought, Bernini’s colonnade represents a great embrace. An embrace so vast that it is always ready to welcome everyone, regardless of the feelings that brought them here.
The pilgrim, the penitent, the curious visitor, the tourist, the religious and the secular, the believer and the atheist.
Souls seemingly far apart, yet united in the same embrace.
This reportage tells the story of the Jubilee year through images taken exclusively along this short route: just under 800 meters.
Eight hundred meters in which the entire world has poured in to celebrate everyday life.