"Si respira lo spirito santo, è ovunque," she tells me. "We breathe the Holy Spirit, it is everywhere." One day I found myself saying the evening prayers with the women who work for the Roma of Florence. The Roma (sometimes called "gypsies") are still discriminated against today and their problems mirror that of many people who immigrate to the United States from the south. Julia has told me that, "They were the slaves of the Romanian monasteries and nobles, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, longer than were Blacks in America." We are working to increase literacy among Roma leaders so that they can teach others in turn.