Word: messa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Messa." In the nearby town of Varese lived the Rev. Giovanni Battista Schreider, a serious, bald, bespectacled Baptist minister. When he heard of the state of affairs at Caravate, he put in an urgent call for his friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant...
Next day a procession appeared in the square, led by small boys yelling, hooting and carrying placards bearing the words: "Abbasso la messa-andiamo da Messa (Down with Mass-let's go to Messa)." Elderly ladies on the fringe of the gaping crowd shook their heads sadly, murmured to one another: "All mad; there's no religion any more...