Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Days later as the same ambulances were rolling back into headquarters heavy with groaning men, news came out that made excitable Italians dance in the streets of Rome. There had been a victory, a great victory. Italian papers first hailed it as "one of the greatest victories in colonial history," later called it, "The battle of the Three Rivers," from the fact that three stony streams unite northwest of Dolo to form the Juba River...
...Frankly, I do not understand British policy," said Benito Mussolini to his favorite U. S. Newshen Anne O'Hare McCormick in Rome recently. "Do you understand...
...Vatican City this week on the feast day of St. Agnes, two chaste white lambs will be brought to the Holy Father from the Church of St. Agnes in the Via Nomentana in Rome. Given his blessing, the gentle animals will be coddled until Easter when their wool is shorn, woven into the pallia which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates and archbishops as a symbol of their office...
Centuries ago in Rome Christian-born Agnes swore herself to virginity, miraculously preserved her maidenhood despite an attempted outrage, was martyred by decapitation at the age of 12. Youngest child saint of all. little St. Hugh of Lincoln was crucified, supposedly by Jews, in 1255 at the age of 9. In Jesuit America last week a Benedictine named Bonaventure Schwinn produced a mo,dern "Who's Who of Child Candidates for Beatification...
Most recent candidate, introduced in Rome by Canon Mugnier from Paris, is Anne de Guigne who "died in the odor of sanctity at the age of 11" in 1922. She was a descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little...