We spent a long time waiting in line to see the Palacio Real this afternoon, and although we suffered from heat, lack of water, and sore feet, we made friends with some Italians from Milan!
Italians are all over Madrid this week, and they are characters! One of our acquaintances told us that the Italians think that there are more Italians than Spaniards in Madrid right now, so every minute an Italian yells out, "Italiano batti le mani! Italians, clap your hands!" and people start clapping all over the place to prove it. We hear them singing their national anthem in the subway accompanied by kazoos, they ask everyone they meet to sign their flags, and when they see American flags they shout, "USA! USA!" to see if the Americans will join in and make some more noise!
We from St. Francis Xavier had an Italian connection and told some of our new friends about our Sicilian pastor. They told us that we would be able to tell Sicilians from other Italians; the Sicilians would be the crazy loud people jumping all over the place. Remind you of anyone?
Envio mucho amor a Padre Pistone de los y las peregrin@s de San Francisco Javier!
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Fr. Pistone was very pleased to tell this story at Mass tonight Sending much love to the Father Pistone and the pilgrim 's San Francisco Javier!
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