Once it was said that God loves numerous families, and it was also said that they were fruitful providers of religious vocations. On the ancient example of the saints. Father Tognetti remembers, for example, that St. Catherine of Siena had a twin brother and that his mother, Lapa Mummy, had baked in all twenty-four ramps. And in the house of St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, were not the children eighteen? Nor is it a case that once prolific families have strong religious motives.
For example, at Manelli's house, the evening was reciting the Rosary, which Mama Licia recited holding a piece of paper in her arms, and her father, Septimius (a name that in turn indicates a considerable number of brothers) on her knees. Though graduate (rare thing at the time) and teacher. Here is a reminder of those who remain forever in a child's mind: the dad who says the kneeling rosary. Question: What did your father leave, a villa with pool? A bank account with many zeros? No: faith.
They married July 15, 1926, Settimio and Licia, and never imagined ending candidates for altars like Martin's spouses (Santa Teresina's parents), Beltrame Quattrocchi, Gheddo, Amendolagine, and Bernardini. Settimio (1886-1978) and Licia (1907-2004) were Franciscan tertiaries and spiritual children of Padre Pio. One of their children, Stephen Mary, from a convent Franciscan priest came out of the order to found the Franciscans of the Immaculate, whom she joined immediately after a female branch.
It is the religious family that has known, more than anything else, a tumultuous growth and an intercontinental expansion of everything. I will, by 2013, have been subjected to the Vatican by a police station, a measure that has made (and continues to be) debated and whose contours are not yet clear. But we know that God does not abandon the "Catholic rabbits" and their bows, so the last word is not yet called.