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crowd at an outdoor Mass in Piana di Sibari,UK Nike Air Max 2012 Women Black, Calabria (Getty)In an act of defiance against Pope Francis, a church parade in southern Italy has taken a detour from its traditional route in order to pay tribute to a convicted Mafia boss.Locals carrying a statue of the Madonna through the streets of the Calabrian town of Oppido Mamertina in the annual Madonna delle Grazie procession stopped in front of the home of the local godfather, Peppe Mazzagatti.Interior Minister Angelino Alfano described the incident as "deplorable and disgusting" and praised the local Carabinieri policemen who abandoned the procession in protest.Mazzagatti, 82, is serving a life sentence for murder and has been allowed house arrest because of health issues.He is alleged to be one of the heads of the local mafia group,UK Nike Air Max 2014 Mens Grey Green Blue, known as 'ndrangheta, one of the most powerful and rich crime syndicates in the world.Church processions, in which an ornate Madonna statue is paraded across a city, are a common ritual in Italy's deeply religious south.The practice of halting the statue in front of someone's house is known as "the bow" and is considered an act of high reverence and respect, greatly appreciated by Mafia bosses who are almost unanimously self-professed Christian devotees.In Oppido Mamertina, members of the clergy, the city mayor and hundreds of the faithful rallied beside the Madonna during the procession, although it is not clear who ordered the bow.Police said they are examining video footage of the incident to identify those responsible.According to Italian media, the local parish priest,Air Max 2015 Women White Black, Don Benedetto Rustico, is a cousin to Mazzagatti.RelatedItalian Mafia Boss 'Fed to Pigs' in CalabriaPope Francis Warns Mafia: Repent or 'End up in Hell'First NYPD anti-Mafia Cop Joseph Petrosino's Murder Solved after Assassin's Great-Nephew BragsDuring a homily after the parade, Don Rustico urged worshippers to beat up a journalist from the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, who was reporting on the incident from outside the church.Calabria's anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri said the bow was a clear act of defiance to Pope Francis who denounced the Mafia and the 'ndrangheta for its "adoration of evil" in a visit to Calabria last month."What happened appears to be a challenge to those words," Gratteri told Italian news agency Ansa.In a massive outdoor mass in Piana di Sibari, in June, Pope Francis told some 100,000 worshippers that Mafiosi were excommunicated because of their crimes."Those who in their lives follow this path of evil,UK Nike Air Max 2012 Black Blue Grey, as Mafiosi do, are not in communion with God," the Pope said. "They are excommunicated."Oppido Mamertino's bishop,Nike Air Max 2011 Men White Bue Black, Monsignor Francesco Milito, described the Madonna bow as a "serious incident" and said measures will be taken against those responsible.See below for a video of the Madonna delle Grazie procession making its way through Oppido Mamertina in Calabria.  <div
Italy: Mystery Fires in Sicily Village Blamed on AliensBy Gianluca MezzofioreJuly 29, 2014 12:06 BSTA man watches house burnt in Canneto di Caronia, Sicilyladiscussione.comA small Sicilian village is witnessing an uncanny surge in spontaneous combustion of electrical appliances, mattresses, beds and cars 10 years after similar episodes attracted geologists, physicists and vulcanologists in search of an explanation.Supernatural entities like UFOs or poltergeist were blamed at the time for unexplained fires in fridges and mobile phones - even when switched off - in Canneto di Caronia, some 60 miles east of Palermo.All scientific theories including arson were ruled out by experts who descended on the village. One startled scientist was interviewed after he detailed how he saw an electrical cable bursting into flames despite being unplugged.The outbreaks continued even after Enel, Italian power utility, cut off the town's power supply. In a few months the phenomena stopped without any apparent reason.A leaked interim report published by an Italian newspaper in 2007 signed by the Civil Protection Department concluded that the cause was "aliens" as the fire were "caused by a high power electromagnetic emissions which were not man-made and reached a power of between 12 and 15 gigawatts". The case, however, was dismissed after one year a following a further investigation which inferred that the fires were indeed arson cases caused by humans.This time the mayor of Canneto ordered some of the 38 residents to leave their homes after 18 episodes of spontaneous combustions were recorded in 48 hours. A television set was said to have caught fire five times. Calogero Beringhelli told The Times that he believes the fires were being started by "unknown electromagnetic radiation" of unknown origin.Sicily's council member for health and safety Vittorio Alfieri said in an interview that the fires were caused by "an entity" that transfers "from one house to another"."A house on the ground floor caught fire then it was the turn of objects on the first floor. Consequently, the fire moved to the nearby house. It was like it was moving," Alfieri explained.VIDEO Incendi misteriosi a Canneto di Caroni