VENEZUELA: Jungle Tale

Monsignor de Ferrari, a Salesian Father, died last August in Caracas. Last week news of his death reached the U.S., and with it as strange a tale as was ever told of jungles, of holy travels, and of unholy terror in the Venezuelan wilds:

On one of his many quests for souls in the jungles of southern Venezuela, Monsignor de Ferrari paused one day beneath a giant cedar tree. Looking up into the branches, he saw two marvelous beings. Enticed down, they turned out to be children of not more than twelve or thirteen.

They were unusual children: their arms reached...

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