Word: ildefonso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look About You." Monte Cassino's abbot, white-haired Ildefonso Rea, last week recalled that the Abbey's motto is succisa virescit (cut down, it grows again). He said quietly: "This monastery was founded in the 6th Century. Four times* it has been destroyed, and every time, no matter how long it took, Monte Cassino has risen again. Nature shows us the urgent will to live. Look about you. Half-burned tree trunks are sprouting fresh and vigorous shoots...
Brother v. Brother. In the north, beyond the German lines, the premature anti-Fascist risings of the summer had a painful aftermath. In Milan the Archbishop, Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shuster, found it necessary to threaten excommunication to those who denounced their anti-Fascist brothers to the Germans. Mussolini's Republican Fascist Government, speaking from a still-undisclosed capital, bawled new threats of death and imprisonment to all who wavered in their love for the Duce...