Archives for: November 2008, 25
A Family History: Arrival in Abbateggio
In November 1947, a young man travelled a hundred and twenty miles east from his home city of Rome to the small village of Abbateggio in the Abruzzi mountains. He came from a humble family and was the second eldest of seven siblings. At twenty-three, he was the youngest medical graduate of his year. He had not chosen to come to this inhospitable place far from his family and sweetheart,