Most Serene Republic of San Marino

		Church of San Quirino — Chiesa dei Cappuccini, with a striking ensemble of Christian devotional art: to each side of the main altar a lectern with icons, copies of those which are perhaps Russian Orthodoxy's two most important: Saint Andrei Rublyov's Trinity, written sometime between 1408 and 1427 — Икона Святой Троицы, написанная Андреем Рублёвым — and the Theotokos of Vladimir — Θεοτόκος του Βλαντιμίρ — Владимирская Икона Божией Матери — Вишгородська ікона Божої Матері, given in 1131 by the the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople to Grand Duke Yury Dolgoruky of Kiev. Regrettably it would not be well advised for one to hold one's breath waiting for Russian Orthodox Churches to make similar gestures, recognizing all that is beautiful and holy in the Catholic Church. Also here in the Church of San Quirino in San Marino is a reproduction of the famous grotto of the rock cave at Massabielle, in Lourdes, France, part of Les Sanctuaires Notre-Dame de Lourdes, where Saint Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first of these Marian apparitions occurring on 11 February 1858, with these claims accepted later as valid by the Catholic Church. During her visit to the grotto on 25 March 1858, Saint Bernadette Soubirous said she was told by Mary: I am the Immaculate Conception — que soy era immaculada concepciou. The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception regarding Mary and her freedom from Original Sin, the content of this doctrine, and more so still the means by which it was announced as Infallible Dogma by Pope Pius IX in his own right and on his own authority, is held by some Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox to be one of the obstacles to Full Communion with the Catholic Church, to the re-unification of the Orthodox-Catholic Church.

	Church of San Quirino — Chiesa dei Cappuccini

		Santa Chiara scaccia i Saraceni, Marchigiano, c. 1630 Santa Chiara drives the Saracens, a.k.a. Muslims, Marche, c. 1630

	Беслӕн - Beslan - Беслан 1 September 2004

		Palazzo Pubblico

				... detail from high altar painting, Church of San Quirino

another of the Three Hills, De La Fratta - Cesta			Adriatic Sea, about 20 kilometers distant, then 200 kilometers of water to Zadar, Croatia, European Christendom

		Basilica di San Marino

		... to Remini and Cattolica, Italy and the Adriatic Sea