Word: assisi
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...restoration of Venice, raised abroad by Minister of Public Works Mario Ferrari Aggradi, lies unused while dozens of local and national agencies squabble over their slices of it. Another example: the frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Holy See, the basilica and convent of Assisi were to be given back to the Vatican. But the Holy See refused to accept them unless the buildings and their irreplaceable frescoes were wholly restored. The Italian government agreed. After 43 years of delay...
...churchgoing Christians resent the purer-than-thou attitude-and the appeal it seems to hold for their children. Nonetheless, the group in some cases has had more success than parents in winning young people from drugs, casual sex and drifting. They also have potent precedents in St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas, both of whom had to break with their families over their vocations...
...thought Charlie Chaplin might also be suitable, ended up by picking Laurence Olivier, who was unavailable. "Olivier couldn't do it, so they asked me," said his modest replacement, Actor Alec Guinness, who was in Italy filming a confrontation scene between Pope Innocent and St. Francis of Assisi for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Zeffirelli's cinematic treatment of the saint's life. "Religion is still an important factor for the young," mused Sir Alec, a Catholic himself. "Only difference is that in the past, religion was a sort of disciplined thinking. Now the young...
...President Wilson as a protest against war. His art was stable: colossal statues, with sweeping elliptical lines, were done in stone and metal. His themes ranged from a black cat named Tombstone to the soaring Peace at San Francisco's airport; but his favorite was St. Francis of Assisi, whom he did in about 150 versions, including a monumental St. Francis of the Guns, inspired by thousands of weapons, turned in to city authorities after Robert Kennedy's assassination...
...Disciples. They often build their lives on the Book of Acts, living in common like the early Christians. They abjure drugs, proscribe sex outside marriage, pray and preach incessantly among drifters, addicts and homosexuals and even, occasionally, in conventional churches and schools. They evoke images of St. Francis of Assisi and his ragged band of followers, or of the early Salvation Army, breaking away from the staid life of congregations to find their fellow man in the streets...