Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: May 24, 2017 04:16PM
When Taranto (TA-ran-to, dammit! Not Ta-RAN-to), Italy got its LDS chapel, the church paid for the private drive and called it "Via Lorenzo Snow."** Googlemap it. The church is at the end in the clu-de-sac. If you do the satellite photo, you'll notice that the chapel comes complete with a calcetto (mini-soccer) court. Sweet. When the church has to close the chapel and convert it into an office building, the employees will be able to play calcetto during lunch.
I wonder why the tennis club next door was demolished. I wonder if the church purchased it and got rid of it.
**(Back in 1852 or something, Lorenzo Snow started teaching in Italy. The Italian members like to go on and on at length about that. But the back story that every leaves out is that Snow only taught among the French-speaking Waldensians, an obscure Protestant sect that exists there still. He converted two extended families, the Malan and Cardon families (yeah, THOSE Cardons), before closing shop. Most of the Malans and probably all the Cardons emigrated to Utah. There were no more Mormons in Italy for over 100 years.)