Word: orvieto
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...enamel. A long unhappy wai went up from the women now crowding about Gregori. Said he: "Of course, you've the comfort that the relic is going to a really safe place." A shout went up filling the square. "They are going to keep our relic in Rome. Orvieto has lost it." Women in the crowd began furiously to beat on the cathedral door. Added Mayor Gregori smoothly: "It isn't for me to head a delegation to the bishop. Communists aren't well received there . . . Really, it's the bishop who should come...
...Pacini, representing the women of Orvieto, went to see the bishop. To the bishop's chancellor, pale, large-cheeked Francesco Troili, she shouted: "What's this about moving and smashing and substituting the reliquary without the people's consent?" Troili answered: "Who are you to question the bishop's decisions?" Pounding her breast, Lea wailed: "That's dictatorship...
...halls of the ancient Town Council, Mayor Gregori was heard to say that 35 Popes had come to Orvieto to see the corporal. Now it was the corporal, Christ's blood, that was going to a Pope in Rome. "Yes," said Mayor Gregori, "everything is more democratic today. We can only rejoice at that...
...hitch occurred when the vehicle that was to bear the reliquary to Rome arrived at Orvieto. It was an ordinary closed moving van. The people gathered in the plaza complained that this was not good enough for their relic. They muttered that the reliquary should be taken to Rome in a truck with a glass top and sides, so that all the countryside could see it and realize what a great sacrifice they, the people of Orvieto, had made...
Just as the crowd was working itself into a mood to stop the removal of the reliquary, a cloud drifted over Orvieto. Hail began to rattle down. Quickly, the people understood the sign: the hail would have shattered a glass-roofed truck. The closed truck was best. Maurizio Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...