” “A journey in time: that is what the young people from the Florence diocese did yesterday, as guests in some medieval suburbs of the deanery of Freigheriht in the diocese of Fulda. The youngsters did not only listen to the story of the village of Gelnhausen from characters dressed in medieval costume, but also took part in the life of that time getting involved in various activities. "In reality said Sara Martini, collaborator of the regional Tuscan catholic weekly called Oggi. The story was told to us in German and a guide was not scheduled to translate everything for us. Fortunately, there were some young people who had studied the language at school and we managed to get by". The most amusing part for the young people from Florence was to live again some moments of a typical day in medieval Germany: at the spring, where people formed a human chain to carry buckets of water to the villages; going about the stalls in the market; in the cellar where they used to keep food and drink or in the tower where the prisoners were kept. Youngsters met yesterday evening for a time of reflection with Monsignor Claudio Maniago, the auxiliary bishop from Florence, who had just arrived, whereas this afternoon there will be a meeting with the evangelical community. Yesterday the young people from Imola, guests of the diocese of Speyer, built three crosses in cement and wood, which were placed in ground offered by the municipality of Dannstadt, near a roadside restaurant. They will serve, said the organisers, "to instil serenity and peace to the travellers".
