The other day I was giving a little tour to a group of Americans beginning with the magnificent Saint Maria Maggiore. You saw my photo of the mosaics a couple days back.
In the confession before the altar, where the relics of the manger of the Lord are preserved, there is a marble statue of Bl. Pius XI. He is in a cotta griccia. We had a discussion about what griccia is. Here is a great photo in marble.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on Daily Rome Shot 1221 – mistreated: “Black to move and mate in 3. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Holy Family (N.O. Baptism of the Lord) 2025: “first and foremost, your observation about the young Lord at the Temple is priceless. attendance at the Cathedral’s 1230 today…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Holy Family (N.O. Baptism of the Lord) 2025: “When we don’t live up to our baptismal mission we put our salvation at risk.” on Daily Rome Shot 1220: “Black to move and mate in 5. 1. … Qh4 2. g3 Ng5+ 3. Kg2 (if Bxg5 then 4. Qe4#)…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1218 – I’m confused.: ““The objective of the formation of the candidate for the priesthood in the affective-sexual sphere is the ability to accept…”
on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Asking prayers for friends with young child who has cancer. They have been pursuing prayer all the way along, along…” on Daily Rome Shot 1217 – “Why”, you may be asking? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Archdiocese of the Five Boroughs? Archdiocese of Three Boroughs and a couple of counties heading north, maybe… it being a…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1217 – “Why”, you may be asking? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Some Orthodox and Greek Catholics process on their knees”
on Daily Rome Shot 1219 – on the other hand…: “This calls for the ultimate sacrifice: 1. Qxc2+! RxQ 2. Nxd3+ Kb1 (or a1) 3. Re1+ Rc1 4. RxR mate”
on Young men are converting to serious, “muscular” Christianity.: “Apologies for coming late to this conversation. I would like to add that most women of a traditional leaning dislike…” on Daily Rome Shot 1219 – on the other hand…: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 03-01-25 – Chewrows: “Don’t worry, as we have seen in NO parishes that pray the TLM, people will kneel and take the Host…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1218 – I’m confused.: “That’s a kind of confusion I could live with. Getting a cone of pistacchio and stracciatella at a good Italian…”
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since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
Nice pic, Father. I finally understand how the pleating works.
Btw, this is Séamas, now being forced to use the Anglicized spelling “Seumas” instead of the proper Irish spelling, because when I came to the blog today, I found myself logged out, my old user name and password wouldn’t work, and when I registered, it wouldn’t allow me to use “Séamas” as a user name.
Yeah, ok, I’ll offer it up. :-)