Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giorgio Vannini, a spry, cheerful young priest, was about the most popular man in the tiny mountain village of Affrico. As assistant to the parish priest, who was old and failing, Don Giorgio climbed tirelessly up & down the mountainside, ministering to the flock. For the children he organized picnics and games, in which he himself joined. He made a bowling green for the men, and bowled with them. Villagers remembered how, after war's end, three youths wandered into a German minefield and Don Giorgio walked in boldly to give them help...
...blunt letter to Don Luciano: "It is with the greatest sorrow that we learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...invasion by the unwanted Don Luciano, the Affricans posted sentries on the road, with conch-shell horns and a bell. They barricaded the doors of the church with stones. When the priest of an adjoining parish, fearing that Affrico had gone too long without the sacraments, came up the mountain to say a Mass, the villagers took down the stones temporarily, but only five people attended...
...convert's home in the mountain village of Melcamaya, Baptist Missionary Norman Dabbs was holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
...museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...