Word: terzigno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tiny hamlets of Campitello. Pagani and Avino, first in the flood's path, were wiped out. Over vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the destroyer. In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine. The flood forked in two just above the village, flowed around it on both sides, moved forward and crept together slowly toward the walls. As his home crumpled and smashed...
When the flow ceased Terzigno was half gone. Fifty houses were destroyed. One hundred and twenty-five acres of forest and vineyard were buried...
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