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Who wants to tell us what this says? What is its significance?
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Meanwhile, BLACK to move and mate in 2.
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NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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Fabiano Caruana vs. Grigoriy Oparin
Levon Aronian vs. Sam Sevian
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You must mean for Black to move and mate in two, Father:
1. . . . Nf3+
2. Kh1 Rxh2 mate
You do keep us our toes!
As for the Latin, unless DOM means “dissolution of marriage,” it seems an address to the mightiest and most powerful Lord about this altar. I can’t make out the passage other than to glean that it may concern the establishment of 30 consecutive days of Masses (“Gregorian Masses”) for a person who has recently died.
Something about a monk named Monachus and a command from St Gregory that’s famous throughout the world. (Just not my corner of it, presumably.) I need help with the abbreviation D.O.M and whatever PVIRVIUM RO means (a pope, I’m guessing from the PONT). And Brother Obt –is that a name or an oblate?
From what I can discern, this is where the Gregorian Mass custom originates?
Shall I attempt the Latin?
First, let’s nail down what the inscription IS, then what it really SAYS.
The tall I is a double I: I == II
D(EO) O(PTIMO) M(AXIMO)
S(ANCTI) GREGORI M(AGNI) TITULO
ET PATROCINIO VENERABILEM
PLURIUM RO(MANORUM) PONT(IFICUM) PRIVILEGIA
TOTO ORBE CELEBREM
REDDIDERUNT
AD QUAM MANDANTE
S(ANCTO) GREGORIO
QUUM HUIUS MONASTERI MONACHUS
DIEBUS XXX CONTINUIS
SACRIFICIUM PRO ANIMA
DEFUNCTI FRATRIS OBTULISSET
EAM MONACHUS ALTER
PIACULARIBUS FLAMMIS EXEMPTAM
VIDIT
To God Greatest And Best
The privileges of many Roman Pontiffs restored this altar by the title and patronage of St. Gregori the Great, famous in the whole world, at which, St. Gregory enjoining, when a monk of this monastery offered the sacrifice for the soul of a deceased brother for thirty continuous days, another monk saw (the soul) taken out from the expiatory flames.
BTW… there’s also Latin on the bottom of the front of the altar in three panels. You can right click and enlarge the image… if you want. And it makes reference to the little cell in the video and photos.