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...gang began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Felonious Friars? | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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