Fรชted on this day, following the sainted Milanese archbishop’s death in 1538, Carlo Borromeo, is celebrated for his reforms and the introduction of seminaries for the education of priests as a force, along with Ignatius Loyola, of the Counter-Reformation. Though we didn’t make it to his home town of Arona to see the colossal bronze created in his likeness during the seventeenth century on a recent visit to Lake Maggiore (at twenty metres tall, the world’s largest statue of the kind second only to the Statue of Liberty and hollow on the inside for visits up to the head), we did see some of his family’s other properties. Carlo’s patronage ranges from the obvious catechists and spiritual directors to the more obscure apple orchards and starch-makers and is invoked against a range of stomach diseases and digestive ailments.
synchronoptica
one year ago: a German supermarket chain allows customers trade worthless NFTs for coupons (with synchronoptica) plus leap minutes and seconds
seven years ago: electric VM mini-buses
eight years ago: statues celebrating women’s suffrawicker ge in the US Capitol, Tรผrkiye requests rendition of disloyals in Germany, a magazine for discerning sweater-wearers plus self-repairing materials
nine years ago: assorted links worth revisiting plus the wicker peacock chair
ten years ago: DNA is not life’s only blueprint, charivari plus the Fall of Rome
