Word: borgata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mirror. Within a few months, Mother Mary was off to Italy, soon became director of Italy's unborn Girls' Town. With her meager funds Mother Mary spent two years searching for the right site. She settled on a tiny hamlet called Borgata Ottavia, near Rome, built a dormitory-schoolhouse. Later she added a simple modern chapel, which was formally inaugurated last week...
...barrier between herself and the girls, got special permission from the Vatican to wear secular clothes. Many of her simple, tweedy outfits are homemade, and she wears no lipstick or jewelry, even on her fund-raising expeditions into Roman society. But some of the shocked villagers of Borgata Ottavia imaginatively endow her with mink coats and painted fingernails. "What will she make of those girls?" asked one indignant woman of the neighborhood last week. "Not good mammas, I'm sure." Nodded another: "The girls will all end up with crickets in their heads -thanks to the rich American woman...