title: Buon Appetito, Your Holiness: The Secret of the Papal Table
author:  Mariangela Rinaldi 
description: Italy being Italy, food there forms a central part of the culture and of daily life, even in the otherworldly confines of the Vatican. Popes being human beings as well as ambassadors of the divine, the food of the Vatican has ranged, over 2,000 years, from the ascetic to the sumptuous, reflecting the tastes of the officeholder. Where, for instance, John Paul II favors clear soups and the occasional serving of white meat, his Renaissance predecessor Alexander VI was an accomplished and omnivorous glutton--to whose endless appetite, write Parma-based historians Rinaldi and Vicini, the Western world owes the custom of the Christmas Eve feast.
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  Sanctuary of Sins
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Roger Kazanowski
  
  Copyright © 2019 Roger Kazanowski
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 9781677245550
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  This book is dedicated to the people in our lives who sacrificed to give
  others opportunities not always afforded to themselves. To Busia and Honest
  John — you’ll always be missed and loved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  Dressed in a black tailored sport jacket, white silk blouse and jeans, blonde
  hair flowing over her sculpted shoulders, she caught many eyes as she
  approached the Vatican. While most tourists entered the basilica casually,
  Anne Lawrence was ushered in through a gate protected by royal guards.
  
  She followed the guards down a narrow, dimly lit hallway. Though she’d had a
  versatile career, she’d never been in a building like this one. The walls were
  adorned with regal-looking paintings in intricately carved gold frames, a
  marble bust placed on a gleaming pedestal every few yards. In its way, it was
  beautiful. But aside