Word: damianos
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...described in a 1957 novel by Italy's Elsa Morante, the authoress wife of Author Alberto Moravia, Arturo was a brilliant youth whose imagination flashed all the colors of a Rimbaud. As depicted in Damiano Damiani's film version of the book, the boy seems more like the Tom Sawyer of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Nevertheless, his story is touching, and it is interpreted by all three principals with aplomb and sensibility...
...members of the local Franciscans. The monks also gave Producer Plato Skouras, son of Spyros, free use of their archives and buildings-including the exquisitely ornamental papal throne room of Assisi's 12th century basilica. The Franciscans' only restriction: no women within the cloister of San Damiano (originally a convent built by Francis for St. Clare), thus requiring the stationing of script girls in remote-control trailers a mile from...
Three years later Sister Clare was abbess of an order of nuns in the old 8th century Church of San Damiano, which Francis had rebuilt, largely with his own hands. For the 38 years that remained to her, Clare never left those walls, while the order she founded spread all over Italy and France. As with the Franciscans, poverty is the cornerstone of the "Poor Clares"; they may not even hold property in common, but depend on begging...
...serving her sisters at table and nursing them in sickness, praying late into the night and rising early to ring the bell for Mass. Twice she is said to have saved Assisi from invading armies. In 1234, when the Saracen soldiers of Frederick II scaled the walls of San Damiano by night, Clare confronted them in an open window holding the Sacrament. The soldiers fled. Later a larger force returned and Clare led her sisters in prayer. Suddenly a huge storm arose that scattered the tents of the enemy, who once again fled in panic...
Died. Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, 81, 261st Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Pri mate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, absolute sovereign of Vatican City, spiritual sovereign of 331,500,000 Roman Catholics; of cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances; in Vatican City...