Word: agrippino
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...gang began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...
Soon the gang turned to better-heeled citizens of their own village. The local pharmacist ignored a series of neatly typed threats until his drugstore burned down; but he paid up ($3,200) when urged by Father Agrippino, accompanied by Father Vittorio and the venerable Father Carmelo (he is now 83). "I am a victim, too, dear doctor," Friar Agrippino declared. "If we don't obey, they'll kill...
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