Italian novelist Ignacio Silone d Aug 22 1978. A former communist, his novels dealt with the ideal of self-giving love and the imperative of solidarity. In “Bread and Wine” a revolutionary returns from exile to fascist Italy disguised as a priest. He goes about the town at night

...writing NO on the walls—seeking to shatter the unanimity of consent on which tyranny relies. One of #DorothyDay’s favorite writers, who integrated the spiritual and the political—not in theories, but in affirming human dignity and the victory of love over hate and mistrust.

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