Word: fabricio
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Over the Ponte Fabricio to Tiberina Island moved a long file of brown Franciscan nuns, the rustling of their robes lost in the rushing Tiber below. Soon solitary groups swelled into crowds; the tide of people stirred all over Italy-fishermen with bare, brown ankles and ruddy-faced mountain men and pale white-collar workers and factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read...