SLIPPY! Vatican, Rome, Italy

slippy steps cropped

Catholic Church: Providing Ascension as well as Descension guidance for 2000+ years!

Found this baby on the narrow stone spiral staircase leading from the Vatican Museum to the Sistine Chapel, this helpful sign provide both a DO and DON’T scenario for navigating the transition from worldly riches to heavenly depiction.

Can’t help but notice that the DO character’s head is floating ever so slightly above the shoulders. Perhaps it’s an homage to St. Denis who continued to preach as he walked 10 kilometers carrying his cut off head?

st dennis copy (ouch!)

What about the Unknown Tourist who continued to talk on her cellphone through the entire Sistine Chapel experience,  despite the visual slings and arrows and daggers thrown at her by an international coterie of the irritated? NO BEATIFICATION for you!

AND a postcard from Bev:

Bev Rome Slippy copy

THANK YOU to all who sent me signs (I mean you, Ginnie).

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