About 30km from Maseru along a good road, the mission town of ROMA has a beautiful location in strangely sculpted sandstone foothills and is home to the unlovely campus of the University of Lesotho , which began life as Pius XII College, run by the Roman Catholic Church. Between 1964 and 1971 it was the university of all three of the former British southern African protectorates, now Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland. Here you can also buy phonecards and make use of their public phone boxes, which are rare in Lesotho, but there's not much to see on campus. A kilometre or so further up the road from the university, past a succession of schools and colleges, is Roma Mission , most of which was built in 1862. Though its towers and exterior detail make it grander than its evangelical counterpart in Morija, the mission is still a little run-down these days, and there's not much reason to linger - although its extension to accommodate the grave of one Father Gerard is a classic of Catholic kitsch. Father Gerard was a founder member of the Mission and celebrated for restoring a young girl's sight through prayer, for which he has recently and posthumously been beatified (he died in 1940).