Word: forno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demanded more practical diplomacy than most Popes have had to practice in embassies around the world: his father was a committed socialist, his mother, as he put it, "a strong and devout" Catholic. Luciani was born, on Oct. 17, 1912, into the working class. In his home town of Forno di Canale in the Dolomite Alps of northeastern Italy, says the parish priest, "the villagers have been forced to work abroad. [Luciani's] father went to Switzer land to make a living." Even tually, the elder Luciani was able to settle down as a glassworker on the small island...
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