Word: zeno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Modena, has a population of about 1,000-mostly children. When anyone there wants food, clothing or cigarettes, he takes what he likes from the common supply. When anyone wants money for dealings with the outside world, he draws it from the common cash box. Says Don Zeno Saltini, "We have no locks. We live according to the Christian principle of ask and you shall receive...
Round-faced, grey-haired little Don Zeno, 50, is the founder and sparkplug of Nomadelphia, which means "Town of Brotherhood." His followers call themselves the Piccoli Apostoli (Little Apostles). The Little Apostles may well contain the seeds of a movement destined to outlast Don Zeno and his disordered century...
...Pledge. As assistant pastor in his first parish, Don Zeno attracted children to church with a Punch and Judy show, later built a small amusement park on the church grounds. When homeless children turned up, he lodged them in a nearby house. By 1946 he was looking after 250 children, had enlisted 28 foster mothers...