The life of the Servants of God Licia Gualandris (1907-2004) and Septimius Manelli (1886-1978), parents with 21 children, is able to offer families today, more than many speeches or sermons, an exemplary model of exercise heroic human and Christian virtues. At a time like the present, the grave moral and social crisis and the attempted assimilation of the natural family based on marriage with other forms of cohabitation, the start of the beatification process of Manelli spouses (2014), writes in the Preface, the Superior general of the Community of the Sons of God Fr. Serafino Tognetti, arises "first of all as a" sign "for the world and for the Church itself. Always, in fact, fertility and large families are praised as a blessing. In the case of Septimus and Lycia, today, the announcement of the 21st son would have called neuro and would be taken away with a straitjacket. "
The book aims to raise awareness of these two splendid figures of parents and tertiary Franciscans, faithful disciples and spiritual children of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, whose history is intertwined with that also the religious family of the Franciscan Friars, because one of the sons of the servants of God is the Father Stefano Maria Manelli FI, founder precisely of this Order which are devoted several articles of the author collected in the appendix.

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