Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour last April through his Communist-riddled archdiocese of "Red" Emilia-a place where village churches are all but deserted and the dead are marched to the cemeteries behind the Red flag-Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro came upon a rarely heartening scene. In the piazza of Casaglia, a town near Bologna, a young Franciscan friar was haranguing a sizable crowd through a public-address system. The message he had for his workingman audience: Communism will fail because it betrays the worker...
...Friars' greatest success was in routing the ex-Jesuit, Alighiero Tondi, who had been booked for a series of speeches in Emilia following his spectacular conversion to Communism (TIME, May 5, 1952). At Tondi's first lecture, before a packed Communist audience at the University of Bologna, Toschi and nine of the Flying Friars were there to heckle. Sample dialogue...
Last week they strikingly augmented the material resources of their mission. To replace the wheezing, borrowed Fiat which had become their trademark, Franciscan Toschi walked into a Bologna automobile dealer's to take delivery of two new Fiat station wagons (bought on the installment plan). Out of respect for his cloth and his impatience, the dealer hustled Father Toschi through the formalities of the sale as quickly as possible. Snapped an irritated lay customer, unwittingly confirming the success of Toschi's mission: "These damn Flying Friars are always taking off without waiting their turn...
When he took over his new parish three years ago, energetic Don Giuseppe Bon-insegna was well aware that he was a "missionary in the land of the faithless." The little village of Gaggio di Piano is the Reddest village in Bologna province, and Bologna province is the Reddest province in Italy. Only about 200 of Don Giuseppe's 3,000 parishioners were faithful Roman Catholics; the rest were more or less faithful Communists...
...village's main square, Don Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...