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...early hours one January morning, the clang of church bells broke the stillness over the vineyards and olive groves of Sant'Angelo in Villa, about 50 miles southeast of Rome. At the sound of the tocsin, villagers tumbled out of bed and, dressing as they ran, swarmed to the church, shouting threats. The alarm had been sounded by two early risers who had spotted the enemy on their way to work. The enemy: Parish Priest Andrea Tarquini, who, flanked by three carabinieri, had tried to slip secretly into the church to sign a document that the whole village considered...
...document: a separation decree issued by the local bishop taking the nearby village of Giglio out of the Sant'Angelo parish. To the 500-odd villagers, this parish chopping seemed intolerable. Sant'Angelo parish had become too big, insisted the bishop. Retorted Emilio Cianfarano, Sant'Angelo's rebel chief: "When you split a family, the whole family suffers." And besides, grumbled the rebels, the bishop had been swayed by Giglio donations of nearly $5,000 toward a new church. Despite the heat caused by such arguments, the villagers failed in their early-morning assault. Before nightfall...
Bible Quiz. That was two years ago. Since then, Sant'Angelo in Villa has known little peace. Three parish priests came and went, and half the villagers boycotted the church. One day a young (33), eloquent Baptist minister came to the village, was challenged by a priest (and locally famed Bible expert) to a Bible quiz in Latin and Greek. After four hours and 45 minutes, the Baptist came out the popular victor. Encouraged by his success, Pastor Graziano Cannito began to hold services in a private house, soon chalked up 70 Sant'Angelo conversions. In nearby towns...
Last November, when Pastor Cannito applied for permission to build a new church (with donations from the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention), war broke out again in Sant'Angelo. Although Rome's Ministry of Public Works gave its approval and the Baptists started to build, the local mayor issued a firm no. Contrary to the standard plot rules of Italian church-state village dramas, Mayor Antonio Baldassarra was not a Communist, but a Christian Democrat who was outraged by the prospect of a Protestant church in Sant'Angelo in Villa...
...exquisite dream"), the cathedral in Milan ("The princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived") and the Acropolis by moonlight ("All the beauty in all the world combined could not rival it"). As if half-ashamed of such ecstatic outbursts, he lapsed into heavy-handed gags about "Mike" Angelo and the tomb of Lazarus ("I had rather live in it than in any house in the town"). Even in such jests Twain foreshadowed an emergent American who, while he had not yet come of age, was prepared to take over the age and judge all cultures...