What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” Henry David Thoreau

The Church of the Gesù (Italian: Chiesa del Gesù) known also as the Saint Mary of Jesus (Santa Maria di Gesù) or the Casa Professa, is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church established under the patronage of the Jesuit order, and located at Piazza Casa Professa 21 in Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

Palermo, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu)is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city’s surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Photographers: as posted on Ancient Wonders In Archeology, Art History, and Architecture by Ira Platonova.