Word: apulians
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...believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula is also being wrenched by other forces within this broad pressure pattern. It is being pinched from the west by the Eurasian plate and from the east by a subdivision of the African plate known as the Apulian. Presumably, strains from these opposing forces caused the Italian quake. Says Florence-born Seismologist Leonardo Seeber, now at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "In Italy we are even worse off, in that we understand very little about the tectonics there...
...Occupied Italy is under two regimes. The departments of Calabria, Lucania and Campania-the toe and ankle of the Italian boot-are administered by Italian officials responsible to the Allied Military Government. The Apulian provinces of Lecce, Brindisi, Bari and Foggia-the Adriatic heel of the boot-are ruled directly by the Badoglio Government...
...week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical cases. Padre Pio and Therese Neumann were forbidden to receive pilgrims. Padre Pio was ordered to cease singing mass in the Apulian village where a cult almost of sainthood has grown up around him. The Holy Office put on the Index Expurgatorius the large amount of mystic literature written around Padre Pio, and suppressed a community of women called the "Little Hosts" which, founded in his honor, had grown too impassioned...
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