Word: sacro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Reggio Emilia capture the affections and feed the ego of the brilliant, moody Togliatti that he got a legal separation from his wife, Rita Mon-tagnana, a white-haired intellectual, and went off to live with Nilde Jotti in a high-walled villa on Rome's Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain...
...mountain cave near Subiaco, Italy, a tall, white-haired Englishman with gentle eyes stood in silent prayer. The place was Sacro Speco, where, tradition says, St. Benedict spent years as an anchorite. The Englishman was Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and (aloofly in the third person) he now describes what he felt there three years ago: "Here was the primal germ of Western Christendom; and, as the pilgrim read . . . the names of all the lands, stretching away to the ends of the Earth, that had been evangelized by a spiritual impetus issuing from this hallowed spot, he prayed that the spirit...
...Imperial Procession. For several days, Togliatti could not be moved. Then, surrounded by an imperial procession of bodyguards, doctors and attendants, he was borne on a stretcher to a special railroad car. Overnight the train moved slowly to Rome. An ambulance whisked Togliatti off to his home in Monte Sacro...
...windswept hill called Sacro Monte, just outside Granada (pop. 141,000), lies one of the oldest settlements of gypsies in all of Spain. There, after four centuries, the gypsies still live in caves; but each cave has its altar, and each altar its special photograph, beside the Virgin's image, surrounded by red carnations. The name of the man in the picture is a revered one on Sacro Monte: Father Andres Manjor...
...work and that the precepts of Father Andres should be written down and distributed to other community schools. Meanwhile another committee, headed by Granada's mayor, set off for Madrid to ask the government to push Father Andres' beatification by the Vatican. But to the gypsies of Sacro Monte, all this was hardly necessary. "We need no Pope's decree," they like to say, "to know that our Don Andres is now a saint in heaven...