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...frequent wry sallies. Thomas Weber, as Don Alfonso, was even better, in a difficult part which required him to sing while snickering at the plot all evening. Patricia Stedry, as Despina, a little out of her range perhaps, nevertheless made an excellent co-conspirator with Don Alfonso in their sotto voce duets...
...base exterior, as Italian Producer Ermanno Olmi knew, and so he cast Steiger as Pope John XXIII, in the Vatican-approved screen version of the late Pope's diary. And There Came a Man, as it will be called, is now being filmed in John's native Sotto il Monte and, says Olmi firmly, "there will be no mixing of the sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part a regeneration" Why was Greece's King Constantine, 24, who as a bachelor did his bit for the scrapyards, driving so slowly...
...from throughout Italy pour in beseeching the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites to start proceedings for the beatification of Pope John XXIII. As the first step toward canonization, beatification requires lengthy investigations (lasting 40 to 60 years) and proof of two miracles; but the villagers of tiny Sotto il Monte, where John was born, are confident that one day he will be "Blessed John." Already, the parish priest says, he has heard of a girl recovering her eyesight and an aged man regaining his health through prayers to the late Pope for his intercession with...
...came from the lesser nobility of Rome, John XXIII from the peasantry of northern Italy. Paul VI is a bourgeois Pope, born to the comforts of Italy's middle class. His birthplace was Concesio, a country village near Brescia in northern Italy (and about 40 miles from Sotto il Monte, where Angelo Roncalli was born). The Pope's father, Giorgio Montini, was a lawyer and crusading journalist; his progressive political and social views were inspired by Don Luigi Sturzo, a near-legendary priest and sociologist who was one of the founders of Italian Christian democracy. Until Mussolini...
...perhaps the loss was most deeply felt in Sotto il Monte, the mountain village where John was born. There, even local Communists tied black rib bons of mourning to the yellow and white Vatican flags that were every where on display. "We have lost a friend," said one villager. "This must be the only village in Italy that is not thinking of who will now be the Pope...