Word: vallombrosa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter came from him; after two years, word reached Alba that he was dead. "I thought I would go mad," she says. Instead, she went to Florence and joined a strict cloistered order, the Benedictines of Vallombrosa. After a seven-year novitiate, she took her "perpetual" vows in 1950. The same year, she had a visit from a thin man who had suffered much-Rinaldo...
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