Aimee V. Johnson / Aimee VJohnson
It was betrayal, greed, murder and passion that was the cause of this torrid love story between Mario Clemente and Rosa Randazza coming to a climactic end in America.This saga covers the years 1871-1945, about the three generations of the reputable Clemente family of Palozta, Sicily. They owned over twenty-five hundred acres of prosperous vineyards plus other successful holdings.A son, Anthony Damien, was born September 14, 1871 to Daniel and Lina Clemente and almost five years later on May 2, 1876 a daughter Anna Daniela was born.In the spring of 1896, Anthony met this lovely Angelina Sabbentini. They fell in love and married a year later on his twenty-sixth birthday. Angelina happily found herself pregnant toward the end of their third year of marriage. On April 9, 1900, Angelina gave birth to their only biological son Mario Augustus Enrico Clemente.Destiny interfered when Mario was ten years old. This caused Anthony to send him away and enroll him at St. Francis Catholic School in Messina. He became an altar boy and later entered the priesthood. He was compelled to return home after his father’s untimely death on Friday night July 13, 1923.Unexpected events forced Mario to forsake his religious background and put many unlawful duties ahead of God.In the second decade of the 1900s, rose a lion named Benito Mussolini. This dictator started the Fascist Party throughout Italy.Arnaldo Mussolini, the younger brother of Benito, laid the groundwork for him and his Fascist troops to invade Sicily in the fall of 1924. Their campaign was to annihilate the Blackhand organization.Mussolini led his soldiers through a series of genocidal killings. Thousands of Sicilians suffered through the purges and torture of this disreputable madman. Benito heard of this Don Mario who he called The Mafia Priest.Destiny, is it controllable or predestined by a higher power?
