Word: sessa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Priest. When the Bishop of Como's new man, Don Mario Sessa, finally got to Caravate, tempers soared further. According to an eyewitness: "He was violently assailed by the furious congregation, especially the women, who even tried to tear his clothes off." Don Mario retreated, but returned under the armed protection of the carabinieri. Soon the church bells were ringing again. But nobody in Caravate came to Mass...
...Washington came the news that the 6,850-ton Pink Star, owned by the U.S. Government, flying the flag of Panama, had been sunk off Iceland in the same waters where a Nazi submarine had tried to torpedo the destroyer Greer and a raider had sent the merchantman Sessa to the bottom...
Down at the bottom of the sea lay the merchantmen Robin Moor (May 21); the Sessa*; (Aug. 17); the Steel Seafarer (Sept. 7); the Montana*; (Sept...