On This Day
21 December 1943
Antonio Lepone writes:
“Without gifts and without
dinners, between bombs and pain.
It is Christmas 1943, among
the ruins, pains and hopes. The
fighting is fierce along the Gustav Line which cuts the Aurunca area in
two. The centres of Sud Ponti are
half-empty, the families going to the nearby countryside and hills to escape
shell fire and air raids. It is not a
time for dinners and gifts, but an attempt is made to remember the religious
event with the hope of an early peace.
The Church of the Immaculate
Conception of Scauri. At the end of the
Mass of Mezanotte, celebrated by Dom Stephen, the unmistakable notes of “Silent
Night” are heard in the small church of SELVACAVA not far from Spigno Saturnia,
proposed by a group of Polish soldiers, stationed in the area, united with the
faithful present, desiring to overcome the selfishness of war.
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