Joseph the Patriarch

Lorenzo Guarnieri

Both disowned by their families in different ways. The first is the well known Biblical story. The second one was chased away when found begging at their doorstep.

Maybe one day sitting on the parish bookshelf we shall see a small booklet "How to recognise  a Saint in your family and help him/her grow in holyness" (not that everyone cannot aspire;))

There I was

Suspended my Lady Bracknell duties, with a red bitter in hand sitting in a lugli position to best savour the assembling of instruments (right behind the mixing desk), next to me a Tom Waitsian father&two sons and on the other side the newly purchased copy of John Paul II "The threshold of hope".

 The concert? It was in aid of Terra Libera an organisation set up by don Ciotti to rescue and relaunch economically lands confiscated from the mafia. http://www.libera.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1

Lorenzo da Brindisi, Doctor of the Church (Brindisi, July,1559 - Belem, Portugal, 1619)

Military chaplain and indepth conouisser of the Bible...