Word: zeno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apollonius to Zeno, greeting. You did right to send the chickpeas to Memphis. Farewell...
...young citizens of Nomadelphia, whom Don Zeno called his "Little Apostles," lived a life of Christian communism. Food, clothing and other necessities came from a common supply, much of which they produced themselves. All the children were divided into "families," headed by adult couples or "mothers," pledged to raise them as their...
...Zeno, now 52, presided over it all like an unconventional patriarch, counseling his children, praying with them, and playing his accordion for them. Instead of his clerical soutane, he wore a beret and turtleneck sweater. Unfortunately, he was never able to dodge conventional economics. With most of its citizens too young to earn enough money to support the colony, Nomadelphia accumulated a disastrous debt of 310 million lire (nearly $500,000). By last month the creditors were growing restless...
Vatican authorities worried about Don Zeno's debts. They also doubted the wisdom of having a community built so completely around one man's personality. Fortnight ago, the Holy Office told Don Zeno that the time had come for him to leave Nomadelphia. A group of Salesian fathers would be assigned to teach the children, a commission appointed to unscramble the debts...
Wrote Don Zeno in a farewell letter to his Little Apostles: "The church sent me to you, I came. I loved you as my children. Now the church takes me away from you. I am no longer father to you. I am a priest in search of a diocese, and I am one of the unhappiest men on the face of the earth." Last week the first of the Salesian fathers arrived in Nomadelphia. Don Zeno packed his accordion and went off to rest and wait for a new assignment...