Happy V-Day!

No, not that V-day -- the one connected to that play -- but this one:  February 11 (yesterday) was Vatican Independence Day, the day of the signing of the 1929 Lateran Pacts that made the Holy See a sovereign entity over the 168 acres of Rome now known as the Vatican City-State.  I know I'll be drinking a fine Italian red to celebrate . . . .

(Thanks for the reminder to Whispers in the Loggia.)