Here is a shot across the City on the night that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI was elected to succeed the late Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Christ. It is not very often that the Apostolic Palace is also illuminated in the manner we see in this photo.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus: “Paul Augustin Card. Mayer, OSB. One of the holiest souls I’ve ever encountered. Amazing man.”
on Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus: “1. R-b6 Black has few choices If . . . . . . a7-a6 2. R×a6# If . . .…”
on I INSTANTLY added this book to my list! (Fr. Z POLLS): “Have read LOTR and The Hobbit so many times that last year my children gave me the hardbound set because…”
on 9 December – Feast of St. Juan Diego. The AMAZING miracle for his canonization!: “So, a couple of Dominican nuns were ignorant of something well known to many others and this makes it fishy?…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “@gsk: You can count me among those who are barely aware of the associations which are intimated by typefaces. I…”
on I INSTANTLY added this book to my list! (Fr. Z POLLS): “Macarius, I still have not attempted Mark Walker’s translation, Hobbitvs Ille (2012) – might a New Year’s Resolution help, I…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “@Not (above): I was open to the fake Sister Lucy thesis for a good while, but this put that theory…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus: “White should play 1. Rb6, which puts Black into Zugzwang: If Black takes the Rook with his pawn, 2. Qa2+…”
on I INSTANTLY added this book to my list! (Fr. Z POLLS): “I read the LOTR trilogy right after seeing the first movie in theaters. Incredible detail, poetry, and nobility. About halfway…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “Ages – good shout. Whenever I hear Helvetica I just think about Switzerland in Roman times.”
on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “I prefer Open Sans to Calibri myself. Excellent coverage of many languages. I hate when there’s no numero glyph, ?…”
on I INSTANTLY added this book to my list! (Fr. Z POLLS): “I read the Brothers Karamazov back in high school unspecified decades ago. I remember back then that I found the…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “Ben – some middle manager was probably bored at work and looked up Calibri on Wikipedia, saw it was a…”
on 9 December – Feast of St. Juan Diego. The AMAZING miracle for his canonization!: “@Alaskamama I recall seeing a pictorial article about Guadalupe in National Geographic well before 1980 (perhaps around 1970?) and hearing…”
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