Word: benedetto
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...decision of Fra Angelico and his brother, who became Fra Benedetto, to present themselves at the doors of the small Dominican monastery, set in a vineyard at the foot of the hill of Fiesole outside Florence, came at a crucial time. A wave of reform was sweeping the Dominican monasteries of Italy; revived humanism, based on study of recently rediscovered classic manuscripts, was threatening the church with a new kind of paganism. The new convent of San Domenico, then less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent...
...care for her Benedetto went hungry and in rags. In the hospital Maddalena grew worse, and wrenching spasms of pain made her scream again and again "Ammazzatemi! [Kill...
...When Benedetto inherited 200,000 francs from a brother in the U.S., he brought Maddalena home and bought her enormous quantities of morphine, but the agony went on. "Buy a gun and do it," she pleaded. "If you die before I do, I'll never forgive you." Finally, he bought...
...night last October, Benedetto knelt beside her bed and together they recited a prayer to the Virgin Mary. Maddalena unfastened her shift and Benedetto fired into her breast, killing her almost instantly. He ran into the street weeping. His neighbors wept with him, as did the policemen who led him to jail...
Last week came the trial. A long line of witnesses testified that Benedetto was a hard worker and a good husband. "This man to me is not a murderer," testified Father Jeanjean, "but rather a suicide's accomplice. If I had had to judge him in the confessional, I would have considered him as a weak man who, like our Lord, bore the cross that had become too heavy for his shoulders." Judge Borricand approved the jury's verdict: not guilty...