Every one of us has a story to tell

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Every one of us has a story to tell

Everyone has a story to tell and so have I; so I have thought that this blog here is going to be used from now on to tell my own life story, this is the second post of a long story which I will call, An Old Man Life Story. Today I am going to write my Old man life story, as close as possible to the way that I lived my life during my younger years, so I will tell you how it all happened in those times, but that is not the only reason why I am going to write this story, since I would also like to write this story because I would like to compare this story to the modern ways of living today, just to give it another useful meaning to my writings.
So, let us just imagine if one could go back in time like in time travel fictions and see how people were living then, what would or could we say about those times then? I suppose we would wonder how nowadays way of living would have affected the older generations, if they had known what life would have been like in the future, since in the old days things were very different then and they did not change very much at all, and if anything happened, it would have happened usually slowly, in fact everything seemed to be standing still, whereas today everything is changing so fast that one has no time even to think about it.
Anyhow, in this first post of, Old man life story, we will start telling you about a story of a young boy who started living his life a long time ago the old ways as it was then; this boy now has become an old man and wonders at the ways we live today; so, this old man now looks at today events and compares them to the time when he was young, therefore, he thinks that it could be interesting if the readers themselves would also like to compare this old time story to the new ways of living that we live today. But that is not all as I will explain in my next post. See you soon.

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This blog, http://genzanoit.blogspot.com now called, Genzano it story, it is being used to write about Genzano town and of course its citizens and anything else that belongs to Genzano; But today I have made this decision and I am going to add the story of an old man that came from Genzano, so that there is more to talk about. I hope to make it interesting enough for my readers to follow my blog.

An old man story

Introduction to; An old man story

Let me tell you a story and transport you to another place and to another time, at the time when I was a kid and my grandma would tell me a story just to keep me happy and go to bed and sleep.

Ho my god! What did I say? Tell you fairy tales that the elders of my time were telling me when I was a kid; no, sorry my dear readers I have made a mistake and I apologize, I should have known better and told you what I am really going to do; I am going to tell you the story of my life. I know now you are saying, what is wrong with me why should I tell you the story of my whole life? Well it is just because I cannot tell you a fairy tale, because today people don’t believe anymore in fairies of fairy tales, and really, I don’t remember most of the tales that I have been told, so I could not tell you much of a story; therefore I am going to tell you the story of my life, because that is the only story that I know better than anybody else.

Now that I have decided to tell you my whole life story, starting with this post called, (An old man story), which is going to be also the name of my writings, I have also to say that there are other issues that have prompt to write my story, the main issues are written hereunder.

Firstly, I would like to tell you my dear readers that I would like to use this story of my life to compare the ways of living between today and the old time ways; I believe that in order to tell a story and make sense to the listener or readers there should also be a purpose for it, so, if we compare this story, then it may make this story more interesting. So I wonder how it would be if one could go back in time like in time travel fictions, how nowadays ways of living would have affected the older generations. You see, in the old days time seemed to stand still and very little changes would happen, and if anything did happen it would happen very slowly, whereas today everything changes very fast and what is new today, in a few days may be said to be old. I hope you see what I mean?

Secondly, I am going to tell you about why I feel that I have to write this story, and why I believe I have to write it. You see, I feel that every human being has a story to tell, and anyone of us could tell our own story if we attach enough importance to the story that we want to tell. So, to me it happens that I believe that by telling you my life story, not only I become satisfied that I have written my own life story, but I would also feel that I am doing humanity a good service, because something can be learned from my life story. I believe that it is the life duty of any man to try to improve anything if one can, just as I have written in my last post. I hope you see what I mean.
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Allow me to move away for the main purpose of this blog, which is to talk about Genzano as its title suggests, because I would like to talk just for a moment about the people that come from Genzano, you see I come from Genzano and therefore I am a Genzanese, now the people of Genzano have their own beliefs and I believe that they are all good citizen and believe in God; I am saying this because I am also going to talk about religious things in this post of the life duty of any man.

What is the life duty of any man we should ask here, you see; while we are talking about religions, we cannot avoid asking why man believes in religions, what we really know about religions? If we happen to know anything at all, should we let the world know what we know, in other words, is it our duty to let the rest of the world know what we think could be helpful to know? In other words, what is the life duty of any man?
This article hereunder I have written it before somewhere else, but I feel the need to repeat it here, so that we may have an explanation of what I am trying to say.
So, what is the life duty of any man can be explained thus:
When a man (or woman) is born receives this gift of life from God in conjunction with Mother Nature, all this is achieved through and from his/her parents as we all know, since this is the only natural way for life to continue indefinitely. This gift of life that this man has received from God, (Mother-Nature etc.) he should Endeavour to guard dearly during his own life with all his inner will and his physical strength, as life is a very precious gift that he has received, especially in God’s eyes since I believe that God is the life giver of all existing life.
Therefore, a man must try to live his own life well, or at least as good as his parents have done before him, and if he can, he must try to improve the standard of life that he has received from them, these improvements that he may have made should be passed on to his children, so that the next generation that comes through him and from him will have a better standard of life than he has had during his own life.

Now just because this blog is called Genzano it, it is natural that we want to talk about Genzano and its citizens, and I being born in Genzano di Lucania, I want to point out that these Genzano people do their duty, and therefore are willing to do their duty of good citizens.  
Now let me go back to what I was saying before. Having described above what the life duty of any man would be, and believing every word that I have said above, there is no way that I can avoid to do my duty for the improvement of future generations, if I want to feel that my life has been worthwhile living; otherwise I will feel that life has passed me by and I have not done anything important, or contributed anything at all for the improvement of future generations.
Therefore now, I have to start thinking what I could and should do to achieve my goal, in order to do my duty and try to improve what I have received from life and what I have learned from life, so that I may have a record of it, and then see which way it can be used for the benefit of mankind. I believe that the best way to do this is to start writing down most of my own life observations including my religious beliefs, since we are going to talk here about religions and religious beliefs; I have to write my religious beliefs in such a way that they could be understood and would make sense to whosoever might read them. I know that my own life experiences and my life observations of religious beliefs that I am going to write here might seem a bit strange to some reader; but what can I do if life sometimes is a bit strange? I can do nothing about it, except to tell you the way it is, and the way that I see it. So, if I have to do my duty in order to improve what I have received from life, I am going to tell you my own life experiences to start with, even if my life experience is going to be boring and might seem strange at times, as I am sure that my life experiences are going to seem strange to you sometime, so much so that one would think that they may be like a metamorphose. But, because a man has got to do what a man has got to do I am going to do it anyhow; so may God help me/us!
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My name is Frank and I was born in Genzano di Lucania, this is why my life journey has started in Genzano, but then other things have happened during my life and I had to leave the town where I was born. Today I believe that every one of us has his own sort of destiny, and our life is like a journey that starts when we are born and continues until we die.
But, what should a man do about his own life journey one may ask?
This question brings us so many other questions that we would like to ask, one of this questions is about ourselves in the first place and therefore we ask what life is?
I suppose that life on earth can be explained in a few different ways according to what the person concerned believes in, as one can go arguing about the origin of life forever, and therefore it is almostimpossible to reach a total agreement of its origin.
The first thing that we know about our life is where we were born, you see, I was born in Genzano but then I have to make my own life journey, so during my life journey I know where I was born but life can take me anywhere so I will not know where I will die. We live this life journey so to
speak because life is like a journey, now what I would like to talk here is about my own life journey, and therefore what counts in these writings are only my own life beliefs, even if some of my readers will not agree with my beliefs.
So, I believe that life for me is a gift that I received in Genzano di Lucania from the eternal life force of the Living God who is working together with Mother Nature since the very beginning of times: They work both together in such a way that life could go on forever on this planet, just like the way they are themselves, as they are eternal. So life keeps going on, even if with the passing of time things and even life itself on this earth may change a little or a lot.
The truth about this slowly changing life matter can be seen easily by any keen observer, since one has only to allow oneself enough time to observe these things, in order to see that although life and other things seem to be the same for a very long time in reality they change; therefore, in order to survive life on earth is constantly adapting itself to its environments, and the faster the environment changes the faster life needs to change to adapt itself to it in order to survive.
I believe that this continuous life adaptation that is continuously taking place, with time it could and would bring some change to the ways of life and even life itself, so, it is important that we look closely at our present own life and our lives experiences including past experiences when we were younger, and perhaps, we should also look closely at recent past generations, so that, we may understand what has happened and what is happening nowadays, if we do that we may be able to plan ahead, so that, we may be ready and able to cope with any changes which may occur in the near future, and also for future generations.
But, perhaps first of all we need to talk about these changes which are taking place and I need to convince those people that don’t believe in these life changes, that those life changes are really taking place, so, I invite you to read my own life journey writings, in order to see for yourself what I mean about general changes and my own life changes. As for myself I know it from my own life experience about them, since I need only to look back at the times when I was young and compare them to these present days, in order to convince myself that the style of life and everything else around me have really changed a lot since my younger days.
As I have said already I was born in Genzano but I will not be able to know where I will die. But at the same time it is obvious from what I have just said above that, we need to adapt ourselves to the present environment as it changes in order to survive. So, this present position will bring us back to the first question. What should a man do about his own life journey? This will bring us to another question. What is the life duty of any man?
So next time we will be talking about the life duty of any man.
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Genzano modern history

Chiesa della Madonna Genzano di Lucania

We have reasons to believe that, the modern Genzano di Lucania modern history; or should I say the Era when they started to build the modern Genzano, as it exists today could have been the twelfth or the thirteen century, and this is what was happening then in the new would be Genzano: You see, about fifteen kilometres away in the castle of Monteserico, which is situated East-South-East of Genzano. This is an old castle built perhaps from the Norman’s sometimes long after the fall of the Roman Empire when they overrun Italy around the year 1000 plus; to this day no other building has been built near this castle except a small chapel. Sometimes people are not sure who build this castle, but I may have personal proof that this castle was built by the Normans, or at least I was lead to believe that it was built by the Normans, so let me tell you how I happen to know it.

Since I came to Australia I have worked in the building industry where I met this Frenchmen called Luis, we worked with the same firm for a few years and most times I and Luis worked together, so we knew each other well. Luis came to Australia when France left Algeria and the army of Algeria was dismantled so to speak, Luis was a captain in the army, so he had learned about many army things including army history. Anyhow let me come to the point of why Luis knowledge is important here. One day I was looking on the TV at the Tour of France, this stage was run in Normandy, so while I was looking at the country side I saw this castle in the background, which I could have sworn that it was exactly the same as the castle that I had been seeing thousands of times from my farm in southern Italy. So next time when I met Luis I asked him about it and surprise, surprise no sooner I mentioned the castle of Monteserico that he knew all about it, so he explained to me.

The Normans have only built two castles one in France and another in southern Italy, and from this castle of Monteserico they would dominate all their conquests of southern Italy. So here is the proof that Luis gave me, which is that the castle of Monteserico has been built from the Normans.

Now I have to say that even with Luis explanation about the castle of Monteserico, I am not sure if he was right to assume that the Normans built this castle, Luis story only shows us that this castle of Monteserico has been used from the Normans, because there are other stories about its origin; in fact there is even a story that this castle was built as a monastery in the beginning and then went through several changes and uses. It was built above a cave where indigenous people used to live a very long time ago.

Anyhow the fact remains that the Norman really had possessed the castle of Monteserico, because history shows us that in the X or XI century there indeed was a great battle around this castle won by the Norman, and therefore the Normans used this castle to dominate their conquests in southern Italy. One day I am going to find out more and make another post about it.

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This post of Genzano di Lucania history is also being written because when I was at school in Genzano di Lucania, my teacher who was also a writer was writing a book about Genzano, I wish I had this book with me now, so that I could find many more things to say about Genzano, but this book is very hard to find these days, so I have to say only those things that I remember and
know.
So, let us begin; how Genzano came into existence is not exactly known today; but, the earliest and first written stories about Genzano, goes back to Roman times, or about when the Roman
Empire started to crumble, see the report below that I have found on the Internet, where it states when the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 as Romulus Augustus was forced to abdicate to the Germanic warlord Odoacer.
But even before the Roman Empirecollapsed there is an event somewhere in the Roman history where they talk about a Genzano town, whether that Genzano is Genzano di Lucania or Genzano di Roma as we know them today is not clear, but anyhow there was a Genzano town during the Roman Empire, since I am talking about Genzano di Lucania, let us assume that it could well be Genzano di Lucania.

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Now, let me tell you another very old story about Genzano: this story that I am going to tell you here may well be after the time when the Roman Empire collapsed: And this story that I am
telling you here is about St. Antonio Abate who is still nowadays the patron
saint of Genzano, this story goes back to the fifth century AD or there about,
a sort of Genzano town already existed then and there was a war going on at
that time: The town of Genzano made resistance to the enemy aggression and its
demands, so it was put under siege. The enemy was furious and was going to
destroy Genzano; so they set their war machines ready for tomorrow to begin the
assault of Genzano and destroy it. The town of Genzano was in grave danger, but
that night the weather rained, snowed and became bitterly cold, it was so cold
that froze everything stiff, so cold and frozen were the war machines that they
could not be used or even moved, and the weather was cold for a very long time
afterward, until the enemy became tired and left; and that’s how Genzano was
saved from destruction. The day that this event happened was on the 17th
day of January, which is the day of St.
Antonio Abate according to the Roman Catholic calendar. See what I found on the
Internet about this great saint:
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Anthony the Great or Antony the Great
(c. 251–356), (Coptic Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the
Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert,
Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius (Ἀββᾶς
Ἀντώνιος), and Father
of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert
Fathers. He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days:
30 January in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church; 17 January in the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church.
The biography of Anthony's life by Athanasius of Alexandria helped to spread
the concept of monasticism, particularly in Western Europe through Latin translations.
He is often erroneously considered the first monk, but as his biography and
other sources make clear, there were many ascetics before him. Anthony was,
however, the first known ascetic going into the wilderness, a geographical
shift that seems to have contributed to his renown.[4]
Anthony is appealed to against infectious diseases, particularly skin
diseases. "Saint Anthony's fire" has described different afflictions
including ergotism, erysipelas and shingles.
End of Internet report about Saint Anthony.
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Now that I have explained who was
this great Saint Anthony, let me tell you how the story goes: The folks of
Genzano believe that this incredible happening of cold weather was due to
divine intervention through St. Antonio Abate: And this is the reason why St.
Antonio Abate was made Patron Saint and protector of Genzano; this belief about
Saint Anthony has lasted to the present time, and I have to ad that even today
when there is a problem in this town, let us say it has not rained for a long
time so rain is needed for the fields to
grow, the priest and the people soon take Sant’Antonio out in a procession through
the town and into the country, in the hope that Sant’Antonio will help to make
it rain. This is how the people of Genzano venerate this Saint.
Now let me go back to Genzano
history, for a very long time after this happening obove, and during the Dark
Ages there doesn’t seem to be any history written about Genzano, and therefore
nobody seems to know what has happened during that time.
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I am afraid to say this, but this 2011 year ends in Genzano in a very sorry way. You see, there cannot be any joy around for a very long time, no matter which way you look at it, it does not look good. Christmas is supposed to be a peaceful and happy family gathering, and everybody should cherish the company of their friends and close relatives; but this year in Genzano di Lucania it has not happened because of a crazy man shooting other fellow citizens, and if some people have been able to put aside what has just happened in Genzano will be a small minority.

When such terrible things happen just at Christmas Eve one should be forgiven to thing that there is no God, otherwise why God let this horrible things happen one may ask for good reasons?

Listen! My heart cries to hear this horrible news; you see this is the town that I came from and I have always thought that nothing violent would ever happen it this friendly town where everybody knows everybody, so to thinking of murdering people in this town is impossible, but that was/is until today, because today has happened something so horrendous that has changed everything, as a triple murder has happened, and it has happened just on Christmas Eve, so what sort of Christmas will the inhabitant of Genzano have this Christmas?

I am afraid to say, but this Christmas will be a very said one for most Genzanesi, just to think that one of their own has killed three people, it is incomprehensible one can only think and say that the killer has lost his mind, what else can it be?

The killer is 77 years old that means that he is an old man and he should have known better but he didn’t. I have to say that I have talked to the killer a couple of times when I were in Genzano about thirty years ago and he seemed all right then, but when I think about it I have always known that he was a man that would easily turn to violence; So what sort of man is he one may ask?

He is a skinny man of average height very alert and sensitive, he was/is lame I don’t know exactly why or what happened to him when he was young, but somehow I know that he was usually restless even when he was a kid, and as the story goes he peeked up one of those unexploded petard too soon after it fell, but the petard exploded and so he was wounded and became lame. He happened to do that because he belongs to a family that are specialized in firework, and that is why he happened to be there when that unexploded petard fell. Notwithstanding this incident he continued to work at the family fireworks factory and this is what he has mostly done all his life, except perhaps when he migrated to Australia for a few years in the seventies, this is how I can describe this heartless killer, Ettore Bruscella.

You see I have migrated to Australia from this Genzano town when I was young, and I am still in Australia today, therefore we are wondering today to which family the victim belong, there are too many Menchise families in this town, so we wonder whether we can be related to them, there are no description on the Italian news for us old Italians to understand that, you see we would like to see written the names of the parents of the victims, so that we could recall who they are, or a given name that some families have, or perhaps even where they lived or their farm possessions, just to give us a better idea who they are. So we who are away from our native town are left wondering about this fact of life.

Anyhow I am going to publish what I have written already, and by doing that I will be informing my countryman what has happened, and I also hope that some of my countryman will let us know a few more details about this terrible event, so that we may learn the facts as they are.

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Who are the victim’s relatives we wonder?  

As I have already said above, for lack of more detailed information, at this stage we don’t know exactly who the victims are, even though we know their names, we don’t know to which family they belong, they could even be some of our relatives who know. For us that have been away from our native town of Genzano for 50 years or more, it is near impossible to figure out who the victims are, just by using what we have learned from the Italian news, but we would like to know anyhow, so, I and my wife who is also from Genzano have tried to assume to which family the victims could belong, so at the moment we have assumed that the victims may indeed be some distant relatives, I am saying distant as they may fall in that category when we start thinking that we are not related anymore because the link is too far back.

Although I am a Menchise I believe that they are not related to me because of this name, but they could be related to me in a different way. For instance I assume that the victims could be related to me in this way on my mother side, starting from me and working my way back I can see; me, my mother, my grandma and my grandma parents Ceruzzi, from here I could go forward to the present generation of the victims. So, from my grandma parents Ceruzzi who had a large extended family including my great uncle Leonardo who had I believe a son Gerardo who once was vice mayor in the town of Genzano in the fifties and a daughter Marietta who married a Menchise and had a family including Leonardo Menchise who is the husband and father of the victims, this is what we believe they are. I wonder how close we are to the truth.

Here I have to say again that this is only an assumption, or a discussion if you like to call it, that we have had in order to find out who they are?           

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