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Life and Missions in Small Town Italy
Visiting Italian villages is a unique and sometimes confusing experience. Expect people to stare at you as you walk down the street. But don’t let it give you an inferiority complex. It’s not that you’re strange or funny-looking. They just don’t see many outsiders, and people everywhere seem to have curiosity in spades! Life in…
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Our Italian Summer Village: Beyond Forgotten
There is only one road leading to the isolated town, our summer village. A place little touched by time, technology, or by the frenetic pace of getting ahead. Thirteen years had passed since our last visit. And though fewer and older, the inhabitants somehow seem to have remained much the same. Many of the old and wrinkled…
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Our Abruzzo, Beautiful but Forgotten
Our Abruzzo village, where we live most of the year, is set among gently rolling hills, covered with vineyards and olive groves. With snow-capped mountains on one side and the Adriatic Sea on the other, it’s truly beautiful. And we feel blessed to live here. Abruzzo is mainly an agricultural region. This, along with it’s…
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The Most Dangerous Ways to School [Video]
When we were children, we knew the route to school so well that we could follow it with our eyes closed. However, none of us could have imagined travelling the long, arduous and dangerous routes taken by the children in these documentaries. This extraordinary documentary series highlights the immense value of education by showing the…
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Italy’s Five Best or Most Unusual Museums
Oh no, a boring list of museums? No, not at all! Because it also includes interesting facts so that you can discover what makes these five museums (out of more than 3,000 in Italy) unique! For example, did you know that the man who made one of these museums famous never wanted to do the…
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The Soldier Who Killed a King: Book Review
David Kitz’s masterfully written book, The Soldier Who Killed a King, had me hooked from the beginning. In it, a fictional centurion named Marcus Longinus recounts his involvement in the Passion of Christ. And how he came to see who Christ really is. The Gospel comes alive Sometimes we become so familiar with the stories…
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