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Abruzzo News: 26 June 2000

26 June/giugno 2000

MESSAGGERO - Chieti - Infiorata 2000

5th edition of Infiorata 2000, the traditional procession of Corpus Domini. Along corso Venti green compositions, flower carpets along Corso Marrucino. The "flower painters" started their works early in the morning, drawing on the street the figures that others filled with flowers, grass, hay, coffee, sand. At 20, after the Mass the procession with youths in their First Communion apparel

26 June/giugno 2000

MESSAGGERO - Rocca di Mezzo - Cardinal Sodano honorary citizen / Il cardinale Sodano cittadino onorario, by Federica Farda

State Cardinal Angelo Sodano (Vatican No. 2) will be a honorary "rocchigiano" on 31 July. Special guest on the occasion also monsignor Orlando Antonini (originary of Abruzzo), Vatican representative in Zambia e Malawi. Sodano likes to spend his periods of rest in the Altopiano delle Rocche.

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