Word: coggia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cracking nerves, however, did what French rifles could not do. In May 1933, peasants going to mass in the village of Coggia found a hoarse, half-crazed man shouting "What have I done?" in front of the church door. A crown of thorns was in his hair and a heavy wooden cross hung from his neck. It was André Spada...
Last week a lean, ragged, jabbering man fell on his knees before the village church at Coggia. A cross dangled on his chest, a crude crown of twigs sat on his tangled hair. Hoarse with a stale fear, he shouted. "What have I done?" A peasant saw that it was Andre Spada, alone and half-witted. Peasants tugged at his elbow to make him rise and hide from the police. Spada pushed them away, rose and wandered about in a daze, jabbering to himself until gendarmes took him away...
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