Rome enjoyed a new sunrise at 06:07 and looks forward to another beautiful building hue changing sunset this evening at 20:09.
Entering a new cycle, the Ave Maria is supposed to ring… but won’t… mostly… at 2o:30.
In the Novus calendar it is the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Patroness of Italy. In the Vetus calendar, she is celebrated tomorrow in the Vetus Ordo. Today, however, in the Vetus is the Feast of St Peter Martyr, who was killed with a sword to the head by a Cathar assassin. Those zany Cathars! He is said to have, in life, conversed with Sts. Catherine of Alexandria, Agnes and Cecilia. I think the Novus Ordo dropped him completely, because, really, who cares about the first Dominican martyr, right? In the sacristy today, I conversed with a deacon from Milan who described that the skull of St Peter clearly reveals his death wound. Fastest canonization in history. Greg DiPippo posted interesting photos over at NLM.
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BTW… I received a report today… it was way down, which is a bit of a problem.
Towards Sant’Eustachio.
It was only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, white to move.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
The article on “Cathari” in the Catholic Encyclopedia online at newadvent.org says, “The essential characteristic of the Catharist faith was Dualism….The moral system, organization, and liturgy of absolute and mitigated Dualism exhibit no substantial difference, and have been treated in the article on the Albigenses” and then the article on “Albigenses” says of their moral system “War and capital punishment were absolutely condemned.” In addition to the dropping of St. Peter martyr from the calendar of the Novus Ordo, we have now seen many Church leaders dropping the Church’s true teaching on capital punishment. Granted that they hedge with their words like “inadmissible,” the practical reality is that in their thinking they are much closer to the heretics than to Catholic tradition. Do they know this much of history? Do they care?
St. Peter of Verona has not been dropped from the calendar per se. His feast day has been moved to the actual date of his martyrdom, April 6th. Which often falls either within Lent, Holy Week or the Easter octave.
Carino, the murderer of St. Peter Martyr, was converted, became a Dominican himself, and did penance. He has been beatified.
The murder weapon is also a relic. Basically a medieval butcher knife, which has a weird shape that was used to perform several butcher functions, but could also be used on battle on humans.
I’m assuming that this is not a “mating” puzzle, because I don’t see a certain one.
So I would try:
1. B-e4
If . . . . . . . . Q×e4
2. Q×e4 (a signicant material advantage)
Otherwise, the threat is
2. R×f7 (Black cannot play Q×e4, withou losing its Queen. See above)
3. R×g7 (possible +)
4. R-h8 (probable+)
5. Q-f7#
At any point, Black could take White’s bishop to regain control of h7 if not then in check, but at the expense if its Queen.
But, if White misses a checking move, White’s Bishop simply takes Black’s Queen, without losing positional advantage.