Word: eustachio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Sundays the Rev. Eustachio Paolicelli preaches in Brooklyn. Weekdays he cleans Brooklyn's streets. Last week Preacher-Street Cleaner Paolicelli celebrated his 38th birthday in notable fashion: at Jamaica, L. I., he was consecrated a bishop in "The Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson." Features of the seven-hour ceremony were vocal selections from the Sanitation Department's glee club (in which Bishop Paolicelli sings bass), an inspirational address by Deputy Sanitation Commissioner Matthew J. Diserio...
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...