Seventy years ago this week, having already shuttered Czechoslovakia’s monasteries in the spring of 1950 and interned thousands of monks in “concentration cloisters”, the Communist authorities turned their anti-religious fervour to the nation’s nunneries.
“You generally die because you are alone or because you have entered too big a game” is one of the cynical observations that Giovanni Falcone assigns to Marcelle Padovani in “Cose di Cosa Nostra”.
