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A hundred ski-loving priests and their lay helpers will meet up at the Limone Piemonte ski resort at Cuneo on the 7 February to compete for the 14 th edition of the Sursum Corda giant slalom, organized by the local San Pietro Apostolo parish.The parish priest of San Pietro, don Romano Fiandra, launched the initiative fourteen years ago with the intention of screating a day of friendship with other priests. The following year, the invitation was extended to include men and women connected with church charity organizations from all over Italy, as well as France. Since then, the downhill Vatican race, re-baptised in Latin as the Descensio Fluctuosa, has grown in popularity year after year