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This is my former roommate, Dima. We went to Saint Anthony’s Basilica in Padua on the patron saint's holiday so he could get footage for his documentary on Andrei Tarkovsky, a Russian director who resided and worked in Italy. We were separated during the procession, and while I was alone among all those people, I stopped feeling alone. I had the opportunity to observe the community in its annual religious conformity to tradition – from the inside. I had been looking for real, non-architectural signs of Catholicism for a long time, and I found them. As far as architecture, though, you can see the distorted basilica in the man’s sunglasses.