I'd seen several of you mentioning C & D's Sansepolcro blend. The name caught my eye, and I found myself wondering where it could have come from. After some puzzling, I tried separating it: "San" and "Sepolcro." Hmmm. I know as much Italian as a cow knows about calculus, but . . . "Sainted Tomb" or "Sainted Sepulcher"?
Well, look here: Sansepolcro - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansepolcro
"According to tradition the founding of the town came about through two 9th-century pilgrims to the Holy Land, Arcanus and Giles, who returned to the region and built a chapel dedicated to Saint Leonard — whose ruins now lie underneath the current Cathedral of Sansepolcro — where they established a monastic way of life. They had brought a stone from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (thus, San Sepolcro) with them from that shrine which led to the name of the monastery, as it became a popular pilgrimage site."
Ha! My (occasionally reliable) "If Only It Were English" method of translating foreign languages comes through again!
Well, look here: Sansepolcro - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansepolcro
"According to tradition the founding of the town came about through two 9th-century pilgrims to the Holy Land, Arcanus and Giles, who returned to the region and built a chapel dedicated to Saint Leonard — whose ruins now lie underneath the current Cathedral of Sansepolcro — where they established a monastic way of life. They had brought a stone from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (thus, San Sepolcro) with them from that shrine which led to the name of the monastery, as it became a popular pilgrimage site."
Ha! My (occasionally reliable) "If Only It Were English" method of translating foreign languages comes through again!
