Word: ramacciotti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have suspected that the small, well-tailored woman with blue-rinsed grey hair and smart, blue-framed spectacles was a nun, or, for that matter, that she was an American. Mother Mary Dominic Ramacciotti regards her occasional social round of luncheons, teas and receptions in Rome as the hard part of her work. This week she was back at the "easier" part: putting in an 18-hour day building an Italian Girls' Town...
Though she has an ancient Tuscan name, spry, sixtyish Mary Ramacciotti was born and bred in Baltimore. She joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore while still in her teens, stayed on to teach. Romance languages, eventually became dean of Notre Dame of Maryland college. Her present project began in 1955, when she met a bouncy, bustling Irish priest named Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, a man with a well-known mission-"Boys' Towns" for Italy. During fund-raising drives for his boys, one question bothered him: What about the girls? When he met Mother Mary...
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