Annabella Sciorra has not forgotten her Abruzzese roots, in the Vastese village of carunchio, which his father left in 1951. After becoming a vet, her father married in New York and had four children. A little relax for Annabella, who will start filming again in October in Canada, and then on the theatre stages in New York, in the role of a 25-year-old Jewish girl. Annabella danced at 13, then her first part in a movie was in True Love, then first actress in Copland and Asteroid. There will be a big party for her lively grandmother today in Carunchio.

To escape Nazi persecutions, Ciampi took refuge in Scanno, where also Guido Calogero, his former university teacher, was under hiding. They spoke of the future of Italy from the ruins of Fascism, and visited friends in Sulmona, "Santuccio", Sante Cantelmi, and his wife Angiolina, where local anti-fascists usually met. The Cantelmi family later emigrated to Argentina, where their daughter is still living. The partisans in Sulmona organized the journey through the Maiella when the weather was very bad, so that it was more difficult for the Germans to discover them. Ciampi was safely brought beyond German lines, and after decades that old friendship still remains.

Within the project "Sulle vie del Giubileo", the archive in L'Aquila will be open for researchers and visitors also on Sunday mornings until 19 december. There will be guided tours and an exhibition "Un Giubileo prima del Giubileo", that is to say the Aquilan perdonanza, established before the first jubilee in Rome in 1300.

Today, tomorrow and on Monday the faithful will climb on their kneels the steps towards the sanctuary to obtain a pardon of their sins, according to an ancient document granted by the Pope to the sanctuary.

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