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the bells of san pasquale. 111
crack till she woke. And it was San Pasquale who
did it.
Who but San Pasquale would think of such a
thing ?
There is still another thing to be told about San
Pasquale. It was the tall Kristoforo from Tre
Cas-tagni. He was not a wicked man, but he had one
bad habit. He never could open his mouth
without swearing. If he said two words, one of them
was sure to be an oath. And do you think it availed
however much his wife and neighbors admonished
him ? But over his bed he had a little picture
representing San Pasquale, and that little image
succeeded in helping him. Every night it swung back and
forth in its frame; it swung fast or slowly, according
as he had sworn during the day. And he noticed
that he should not be able to sleep a single night
until he had given up swearing.
In Diamante San Pasquale has a church, lying just
outside Porta Etnea, a short distance down the
mountain. It is small and poor, but the white walls
and the red cupola lie beautifully imbedded in a grove
of almond trees.
Therefore as soon as the almond trees blossom in
the spring San Pasquale’s church becomes the most
beautiful in Diamante.
San Pasquale’s church is very unfortunate and
forsaken, because service can never be held there.
When the Garibaldists, who rescued Sicily, came
to Diamante, they encamped in San Pasquale and in
the Franciscan monastery, close by the church. And
into the church itself they brought dumb animals,
and carried on such a wild life with women and cards
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