ROME 26/10– Day 03: Still rocky

Since today is the Transitus of St. Francis and tomorrow is his feast day (he is co-patron here, so Sunday Mass will be in white), here is an image from an altar painting at The Parish™, which features St. Augustine and St. Francis, because two brothers, Agostino and Francesco, paid to decorate it. Makes sense. There’s a lot more to be said, and I will probably make a couple of videos about the side chapels… with NEW ILLUMINATION!!!… for Roman Donors.

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And…

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”
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Heading home from Mass with a stop at the grocer. The blue light is a little spooky.

What’s for supper? A cheeseburger. I’m in Rome, but I wanted a cheeseburger. So there.

Great beef. As my late-mother liked, strong mustard and a slice of raw onion, bun buttered and grilled. Alas, these pickles can’t hold a candle to the robust stuff of the new world. Arrogant, effete cornichons.

I’m still not great. Today, with DO’R, we worked on getting special characters, especially Greek and Latin with accents, etc., to post.

I’ll be getting out and around soon, I hope.

Meanwhile… YOU GO GIRLS!

Three defiant Austrian nuns in their 80s—Sister Bernadette (88), Sister Regina (86), and Sister Rita (81)—fled an involuntary retirement home in September 2025 to break back into their shuttered historic convent, Schloss Goldenstein in Elsbethen, Austria. The sisters gained… pic.twitter.com/HR86zo0R2D
— Archaeo – Histories (@archeohistories) October 3, 2026

We need a lot more of this.

I had an image of a couple dozen priests in a diocese on a given Sunday celebrating either the TLM or NO ad orientem with kneelers out if there is no rail.

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