Word: eustachio
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...from the Pantheon, you can fuel up on the world's greatest espresso (and people watching) at Sant' Eustachio (Piazza Sant' Eustachio 82). Or walk around the market at Campo dei Fiori and the surrounding twisty streets, as well as the extremely lively Trastevere neighborhood...
Vasari's principal sources were a pious Dominican eulogy and the memories of an ancient monk, Fra Eustachio. with whom Vasari often gossiped at Florence's convent of San Marco. From such accounts, Vasari drew the picture of Fra Angelico as a painter who "never took up his brush without first making a prayer. He never made a crucifix when the tears did not course down his cheeks . . ." Some later historians have doubted this picture of Fra Angelico in a state of religious ecstasy. The evidence in his painting points far more...
...Cidra, high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
...Well," said worldly Don Luis to Eustachio when he heard his story, "if you must kneel, there is nothing to stop me from kneeling too." A cousin of Muñoz urged him to pay Eustachio for the two chickens he had sold. Said Don Luis: "When a man gives you his soul, do you give him change...
Dark, eupeptic Eustachio Paolicelli acquired that faith at 17, when he was a recent immigrant from Italy. Now he and his family never go near doctors. Because he gets no pay for being a bishop, Brother Paolicelli (as he prefers to be called) will keep on sweeping streets. In his spare time he will have episcopal jurisdiction over the 400 Italian congregations of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson, in the U. S. and abroad. Of little concern is it to Bishop Paolicelli that he wears a white-wing's cap instead of a mitre. Says...