http://www.possentisociety.com/default.asp
Posted on 12/16/2007 6:14:54 AM PST by Zakeet
The St. Gabriel Possenti Society awarded Jeanne Assam of New Life Church in Colorado Springs its Medal and Certificate of Honor, Society Founder/Chairman John M. Snyder announced in Arlington, Va., Friday. Assam, a former policewoman volunteering as a security guard, fired her weapon to stop a crazed anti-Christian gunman bent on mass murder after he killed two innocent worshippers, Christian Newswire reported Friday.
According to news reports, Assam, armed with a handgun for which she has a concealed carry permit, faced down the murderer armed with two semiautomatic handguns and two semiautomatic rifles and carrying 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Snyder said "Assam is a true heroine who manifests the qualities of personal courage, faith in Almighty God, and genuine charity towards one's neighbors valued so highly by our Society."
The interdenominational Society is named for St. Gabriel Possenti, a Catholic seminarian who used a handgun to rescue villagers of Isola del Gran Sasso, Italy, from a gang of 20 marauders in 1860. After rescuing a young woman from a rapist, his single-shot shooting of a running lizard so impressed the gang that they obeyed his orders to disarm and leave town. Possenti was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.
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Carefully leaving out that the 20 were members of the Garibaldian army, generally considered the "good guys" in the Wars of Italian Unification.
The story makes it sound like they were random banditti.
Have admit I had not heard of this group before.
But in that time frame, and later, the "good guys" weren't necessarily all that good, just better than the other side.
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