Word: pettirosi
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...politician can count on the market woman's undying support. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she regards mankind in general with profound suspicion and reserves her deepest loyalty for the Roman Catholic Church. Paraguay's Pettirosi Market in the capital of Asuncion is built around a rustic brick chapel, and each morning when the market women troop past, they light candles, kneel down and pray, and place flowers on the altar. "Most men are drunken no-goods," says one market matriarch. "Priests are the only members of their sex I can respect...
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