Word: matteo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guider Park, Brooklyn, one Matteo Aurierno, 26, was found wandering in the dark, bleeding from deep stabs in his neck and hands. At the police station he related that, while strolling, he was thrown down and slashed by a "personable" woman who then fled, chortling...
...Capuchin order of friars, famed for preaching and ministrations to the poor, sprang from the Franciscans. They became a separate order in about the year 1520 when Matteo di Bassi decided that the habit worn by the Franciscans was not the one that St. Francis had worn. He made himself a pointed hood (capuche), allowed his beard to grow, went barefooted...