On a cold winter morning in 1955, the bells of a small Italian church rang out of turn. They weren’t announcing a party or celebration, but a plea. Maria Rossy had been in labor for over twenty hours. No one at the hospital could have imagined what was about to happen.
When the baby finally began to be born, silence fell over the room. The doctor paled. The nurses looked at each other in terror. The child was gigantic, something they had never seen before. When they placed him on the scale, everyone held their breath: more than 10 kilos .
For long seconds he didn’t cry. Maria, exhausted, asked almost in a whisper if he was alive. Then a powerful scream filled the room. That cry seemed to tell the world that he wasn’t going to give up.
They called him Angelo .
