This Basilica was consecrated to St. Michael by Boniface II on the site of the Roman Circus.
Sancte Michaël Archangele,
defende nos in proelio!
(by Rafael Sanzio, c. 1505, the Louvre, Paris.)
In celebration of today's great feast day we had a delicious bolognese sauce spaghetti, with red wine. I wanted angel hair pasta, but we made do with regular spaghetti. Then for dessert Lisa made a blackberry crumble, because apparently when Satan was kicked out of heaven (many years ago on Sept. 29) he landed in a blackberry briar patch and returns now every year on this day to curse and spit upon (or worse) blackberry patches all over the world. Hence the necessity of eating them by Michaelmas. It's best with vanilla ice cream on top.
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Ice cream is ok, if you can't have it with a pretty little grand-daughter!
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