At first glance, the story of Bartolo Longo and his connection to Our Lady of Pompeii Shrine, 1224 W. Lexington, smacks of bad fiction. Longo, a 19th century Italian lawyer and onetime Satanic priest who’s up for sainthood, will be memorialized next year with a life-sized bronze statue that will sit in a courtyard just outside the shrine.
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