Crossword-Solution: LECCE 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But there were sometimes terrible crises like those in the families Della Valle and Croce in Rome (1482), where even the great Roberto da Lecce raised his voice in vain.[1063] Shortly before Holy Week he had preached to immense crowds in the square before the Minerva.

Thousands of _truddhi_ are to be seen in Italy; they date from every epoch, and the people of Lecce and Bari continue to erect them as did their fathers before them.

According to two accounts, the _Hypericum crispum_ in Sicily is poisonous to white sheep alone; their heads swell, their wool falls off, and they often die; but this plant, according to Lecce, is poisonous only when it grows in swamps; nor is this improbable, as we know how readily the poisonous principle in plants is influenced by the conditions under which they grow.

This appears to me the disagreeable truth concerning the harbourage of Saint Francis and Saint Bernardine, and of Roberto da Lecce, a man who, if everybody had his rights, would be known as great in his way as either.

Roberto da Lecce began by exhibiting a crucifix, which moved the audience to tears; 'and the weeping and crying, _Jesu misericordia!_ lasted about half an hour.