In Philadelphia, 1,500 Roman Catholic parishioners in the Italian district, resentful over transfer orders for their three popular priests, Revs. Simpliciano Gatt, Aurelio Marini and Basil Fresno, held the fathers captive in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel until police forced an entrance, surrounded the priests, got them out. When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral...
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