On one day of the year, 9 March, the Feast of St Frances of Rome, the Benedictine sisters (founded by Francesca) allow people into the convent to see her rooms, etc.
Photo from The World’s Best Sacristan™.
My tech continues to fight me. Yesterday for the live stream the video was terrible and for no apparent reason, but I am pretty sure it was on my end. Also, the shoulder and neck pain… is now also in my left foot. Pretty obvious what’s going on. I might need a cane before the day is out.
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A long time reader who travels a lot wrote:
Saw your video of the hotel door being broken into/opened.
This happened to me once in OK City and I ended up in an altercation.
He says he found a solution: HERE
From the Getty, St. Hedwig and the nun with a Hedgehog HERE
In chessy news…. World #1 Magnus Carlsen scored 3/3 in the Norwegian Team Chess Championship. His wins saw him gain 4.1 rating points to climb to 2837.1, 35 points above Hikaru Nakamura and 50 points above World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju.
White to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
Pg5+, Kxg5
Rg2+, Kf4
Rf7+, Ke3
Rf3#
How about in 3?
1. g4-g5+ . . K×g5
2. R-g2+
If . . . . . . . . . K-h4 or -h5 or -h6
3. R-h7#
If . . . . . . . . . K-f6 or -f4
3. R-f7#
Correction, 4th move required
If
2. . . . . . . . K-f4
3. R-f7+ . . K-e3
4. R-f3#