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Campi Flegrei

Campi Flegrei
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Background

The Phlegraean Fields is a large volcanic caldera west of Naples, Italy. The Neapolitan Yellow Tuff eruption produced just 50 cubic kilometers. It is, however, one of relatively few volcanoes large enough to form a caldera.

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In Naples ’44

The volcanic area west of Naples where crowds gather in spring 1944 around a twelve-year-old visionary — a ‘local Bernadette’ — to whom the Virgin is said to appear.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. March 29 1944

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