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Word: frattocchio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the Vatican for his annual summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo in the nearby Alban Hills, he told an aide: "We do not know if we will return and how we will return." On the first day of August, the theme recurred. Driven to the wine-making hamlet of Frattocchio to visit the grave of an old friend, he said to a knot of onlookers: "We hope to meet him after death, which for us cannot be far away." Five days later, on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, the Pope was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Pope | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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