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Year of God 1510...

... Knights armed with lances and swords are approaching to the old fortress, prepared to take over the castle. In front of the gates the flames are higher in the sky and the dens smoke is broking throw the night. 0n the earth where once the Romans left their traces, the grass was all turned and trampled by horses. Humans behind the fortress walls are prepared for the attack. Cannons are brought into the correct position, in order to repeal the enemy.

Behind the walls women with children in arms are trying to be kept in safety. Men were trying to observe from the towers the position of the enemy. The flames of fire let the sky appear blood-red, prediction of nothing good to come, an "indication" that always the battle requires many victims. The walls on what some enemy knights are trying to climb are full with pitches what are pulled over and a painful death is floating.

In this night, one reads it later in the chronicles that took place the final fight, when the blood pouring arrives to the end.

In the sky, in front of everybody an angel appears, spreads the arms and speaks to humans: "I am your protection angel, the angel of humans, the angel Gabriel.

Why are you killing between you?? Have you no fear of the purgatory, the hell or the court of God?"

The women behind the thick walls hold powerfully the children in the arms and make the sign of cross, the men also seeing this "sign" from the sky stopped for a moment. The knights step down from horses and put themselves on knees. A rain in form of tears falls from the sky and stave the flames.

For one moment all becomes completely quiet, so that one could hear the humans heart beating.

The angel surrounded by a ray of light, says: "let this fortress to be a meeting place for humans, to become a place that will always remind you this night."

Centuries passed since this memorable day. The fortress "San Gabriele" changed several times its form, got over many time epochs and is now a building with thick walls, in which humans are looking for safety. The rooms throw its interior still remind you that once upon a time, in the year 1510 a miracle happened. In many small niches candles burn and give warm light witch emanate warmth. The flames remind something about that night. Here and there one believes to meet humans from past days, but there are only humans of the present protected by San Gabriele, an angel, who has guarded this house and whose picture can be found in the talisman of the owner. San Gabriele, the protection angel for us - The humans...