Word: antonietta
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...shapeless, pudgy fingers of her right hand she held a bleeding heart limned in red and gold. She was exactly like hundreds of other foot-high, hollow, plaster Madonnas that the Sicilian factory sold for $3, and like many of them she was a wedding present-to Antonietta and Angelo lannuso of Syracuse. Soon after they got the present in the spring of 1953, the commotion began...
Dark, devout Antonietta, then 20, became pregnant and began to suffer agonizing pains, during which her sight became clouded, and she prayed fervently to the Madonna for deliverance. Then, she recalls, on the morning of Aug. 29, 1953, in the midst of one of these seizures, "I saw tears pouring down the Madonna's face. It was incredible. For a moment I thought I was mad. She was crying like a child. Then I began to shout, 'La Madonnina piange [The little Madonna is weeping...
...Tears Like Pearls. Antonietta's mother and sister-in-law thought she was hysterical, tried to calm her until they looked at the Madonna. "So plentiful were those tears," wrote a monk reporting the case, "that they spilled over into the right hand holding the heart...
During his regime Adler has at times misfired: last year's Boris Godunov, for instance, was a murky failure. But how well Adler has done is amply demonstrated by the fact that last month he and his company casually shrugged off cancellations by Sopranos Maria Callas and Antonietta Stella, promptly went on to give San Francisco what may well be its most stimulating opera season to date...
...Antonietta de Martino, Secretary & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Nicholas Longworth and many another. They all went last week to the inaugural performance of the American Opera Company in Poll's Theatre, Washington...