Beard of the Week XI
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Before I forget to mention it, Isaac and I are taking a vacation in Rome starting next week, so I and Beard of the Week will be on a brief hiatus starting then, but we plan to return in a couple of weeks, perhaps with some new beards from Italy.
The last time we visited Rome was in 2001, less than a month after September 11. Rome is a destination we choose for a number of pretty obvious reasons, but we also have friends there whom we like to visit, and Isaac likes to revisit to the city he lived in for a good part of the 80s when he was resident in the Abbey of Sant'Anselmo, and Secretary to the Abbot Primate of the Benedectine Order.
This week's beard, then, is Isaac's, as it looked on our last Rome trip. The top picture ("Saint Isaac") I took in front of a church-yard gate in the villiage of Albano, where we stopped on our way to see the gardens in Ninfa. The lower picture I took in Bernini's Colonnade at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.