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Very Slowly. Few, if any, of them will live to see the final restoration. Gaunt, 60year-old Dom Francesco Vignanelli, who once taught architecture in the Abbey's seminary, will be lucky to see the end of his own special task. From dawn to nightfall he sits in a shack, cataloguing and patching together the fragments of Monte Cassino's treasures: arms and heads of statues, chunks of carved wood, tiny bits of mosaic. "It goes very slowly," he said. "Still, we've rebuilt six statues...
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