A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Yesterday evening I was fortunate to have the occasion to be walking through Piazza Navona when I happened upon a Cyr wheel performer! This is a circus art form I've been interested in for years but hadn't seen in real life until now! All wheels lead to Rome...
Liturgical: Second Sunday of Lent If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?
Sanctoral: Walburga, England +777 Invoked against hydrophobia, patron of sailors.
Human: *1570- Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. Also absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown.
*50 AD – Roman emperor Claudius adopted Nero (he was given the name Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus), who, as he was older than the biological son of the emperor – Britannicus - became his heir to the throne. In addition, Claudius granted Nero’s mother, Agrippina the Younger, the title Augusta and give the status of a Roman colony to her hometown, Oppidum Ubiorum. From that time, the city was called Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium – today’s Cologne in Germany.
*38 AD – emperor Hadrian adopted his successor Antoninus Pius.
*493 AD – Odoacer captured Ravenna after a three-year siege and agreed to talk with Theodoric the Great, the king of the Ostrogoths.
Natural: Another sighting of the villa's mystery bird! Can anyone identify it?
Quote: "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
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