Word: pagliuca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mostly mothers and children receiving instructions for their First Communion, were attending evening Mass when the marble floor began to heave and the heavy candlesticks to wobble on the main altar. "It was as though a giant passing train had shaken the building to its foundations," recalled Father Giuseppe Pagliuca, the parish priest. As the terrified congregation fled toward the doors, the huge roof split in two and collapsed, throwing Pagliuca clear but burying the worshipers under a mountain of stone. The bleeding figure of a town official landed at the priest's feet. "Lord have mercy...