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SoCultures November 2018
Culture Café
who make difference by loving and accepting the others. But these three great
cultures in the Holy Land have one thing in common, that they respect the great
culture of tourists and pilgrims.
 Tell us about your favourite film, book or art anything which fascinates you
from your culture?
One night I had a dream of a person I didn’t know before. A boy led me through
countryside to an old house with a room with many children, a long old wooden
table and many chairs. We all had to sit down and then entered a man who looked
at me and began to teach the children. The day after, on television, they were
telling the story of this man. I thought, ‘Oh look there, I saw him in my dream last
night’. The TV was showing old photographs of this old house, the room with the
wooden table and many children and this man teaching them. This person was Don
Lorenzo Milani, a catholic priest who lived during the war and fought for the rights
of the poor children who had no possibility to go to school and had to work hard in
the fields. He was an intellectual person and so he founded a school of himself
teaching poor children in this old house in the countryside of Barbiana, Italy. But
he had a lot of difficulties. Months later I found a book which talks about his youth
and his choice to become a catholic priest. But there was a period of his live the
television did not talk about it. The title of the book is, ‘Lorenzo Milani,
l’artistachetrovòDio’ which means Lorenzo Milani, the artist who found God
written by Valentina Alberici. He was an artist, a painter like me. He taught the
children painting. He studied art in the “Accademia di Belle Arti” of Brera in
Milan, where I live actually. What a surprise! He or God wanted to tell me this in
my dream. I bought the book. But no one talks about him like an artist. Neither is
he known as a saint. Perhaps one day people will call him that. But for me he is a
saint now
Below is a painting by Eva. .titled… God’s Perspective
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