Archbishop's Palace of Lima

This guide to the Archbishop's Palace of Lima centers on Toribio de Mogrovejo, archbishop from 1579, a man who fasted so hard as a boy his teachers had to intervene and who quietly gave away his own dinner from an office built for rich ceremony. You'll hear how he crossed his vast, mountain-to-coast archdiocese on foot three separate times, baptizing and confirming hundreds of thousands of people, learning local languages himself so confession would not need a conquistador's translator. Look up at the dark, patiently carved cedar balcony above you, and listen for how quietly he gave that food away.