Daily Rome Shots 1088 – “Madonna fiumarola”

This was for the “Madonna de Noantri” festival that takes place around 16 July ti the end of the month for Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Eight days after the procession along the streets of Trastevere – when she exits Sant’Agata in Trastevere and returns to S. Crisogono, she is carried on a boat on the Tiber, disembarked at Lungotevere degli Anguillara and brought to St Maria in Trastevere. This is when she’s called “Madonna fiumarola”. The statue was found by Corsican sailors at the Tiber’s mouth after a storm in 1535. St. Philip arrived in Rome in 1534. This is why there are always also Corsican confraternities participating. The tradition of carrying the statue on a boat started in the early 1600s when the Archconfraternity of the Madonna del Carmine was founded.

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In chessy news, Carlsen crushed Tuan Minh Le in a blitz game the other day with the King’s Gambit, deadly if you play it right, deadly if you play it wrong.  I can’t figure out how to embed it.  It is HERE.  Scroll down to the last of the Carlsen/Le games.

White to mate in 2.  How long did it take you?

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2 Comments

  1. Synonymous_Howard says:

    1. Qh4
    If 1. … gxh4, 2. Rg7#
    If anything else 2. Qxg5#

  2. AMDG says:

    Dear Fr, what is the best way to communicate with you re: Mass intentions?

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