diocesan synod was held by Cardinal Ippolito Rossi (1564–1591) on 14 November 1566.

On 19 July 1576, the Apostolic Visitor by the mandate of Pope Gregory XIII, Bishop Angelo Peruzzi, Auxiliary Bishop of Bologna and titular bishop of Caesarea, issued a set of decrees for the diocese of Pavia in thirty-eight chapters, on the same themes as appear regularly in diocesan statutes. These statutes, however, took account of the various decrees of the recently concluded Council of Trent. Bishop Peruzzi had previously conducted a visitation of the diocese of Modena to the satisfaction of the Pope, who then assigned him to do the same at Pavia, Piacenza, and Parma. 

Bishop Giovanni Battista Biglia (1609–1617) held a synod in 1612. A synod was held by Bishop Francesco Biglia ((1648–1659) in"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose career. Choose a family."

The classic opening lines to Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting, now resurrected in a sequel taking place ten years down the line; in a new time, with its characters forced to look back over whether they've moved with those times, or stubbornly resisted them.

To mark the debut of T2 Trainspotting into cinemas, John Humphrys surprised Radio 4 listeners by delivering his own take on the classic 'Choose Life' monologue Ewan McGregor's Renton delivers in the original, though it also receives its own updated version in the sequel.

Of course, being the more genteel medium of radio, Humphrys dropped the monologue's splattering of swearwords; himself choosing the softer "Choose a big telly" over "Choose a f*cking big television".

Another alteration, of course,