Word: benito
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...white satin suit was ready, and his playmates were all talking about their own first communions in the Roman Catholic Church, the next day; but six-year-old Benito Corvillon persuaded his mother that he simply couldn't go through with it. That, 29-year-old Benito now believes, began a career that has since shocked a number of his fellow Spaniards...
...Benito's father, who was manager of a big coffee house on Madrid's Gran Via and concessionaire of the bar in the Spanish Parliament building, could afford to send his son to the best high school in the city. Benito also liked to spend his evenings talking history, philosophy and sometimes religion with tough-minded old Juan Fliedner, one of Spain's rare Protestant ministers. Eventually Benito joined Pastor Fliedner's Evangelical Church...
...Thing to Fear. Spain's Civil War was hard on the Corvillon family. Because they stayed at their jobs in Loyalist Madrid they were in the Franco government's Dad books when the war ended. Benito's father was fired, and Benito himself was thrown into jail without trial or specific charges. For nine months he was awakened each morning by the firing of execution squads, wondering if he would be next...
When he got out of jail, Benito managed to find a job as waiter at the Parliament bar which his father had once run. Protestant activities were strictly limited under Franco, and the Evangelical community was all but dispersed. Benito asked his old friend Pastor Fliedner to help him get ready for the ministry...
...Rome's Church of St. Augustine, a requiem mass commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Benito Mussolini was attended by the dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, son Romano and daughters Anna Maria and Countess Edda Ciano. The black-clad Mussolini family stood throughout the long ceremony while a cordon of police surrounded the church. Arrested: one student who shouted "Viva Mussolini!" above the voices of the singers...