Somasca

Somasca is a hamlet in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, situated in the hills overlooking the south-eastern branch of Lake Como. For purposes of local government it counts as a frazione of the Commune of Vercurago, which falls within the Province of Lecco.

The Sanctuary of Somasca, which honours the memory of Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, overlooks Lake Como.

Location of the province of Lecco

History

Somasca is known chiefly for having given its name to the Somaschi Fathers, an order of priests devoted to charitable works which was founded by Saint Gerolamo Emiliani in 1532.

gollark: Also, it's at least... not impossible... that quantum stuff runs on some smaller-scale deterministic processes, though I think it *has* been proven that said processes would need to synchronize data faster than light speed.

gollark: You know there's an intermediate scale between "poke around individual quarks" and "kill the entire human or whatever", right?

gollark: The first bit.

gollark: ... how did you draw *that* conclusion?

gollark: If a tiny unmeasurability error leads to a problem, just correct it at a larger scale, and we don't have that.

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