Giuseppe and the Little Donkey

Yet the battle still raged on, as the big business companies with their expensive lawyers and some politicians thought that a few plants should not get in the way of progress. But then a story appeared on the Internet. It was the story of a little donkey who had been led by St Francis of Assisi, from a place where he had been starved and abused, to a kindly old man and his motherless grandson. ( Father Roberto had wondered if he was laying it on a bit thick at this point), but as he was not actually lying, he made the sign of the cross and carried on. How she had repaid the kindly old man by helping his grandson get over the loss of his mother, and how he had repaid St Francis by leading the people of the valley to the place where the plants and animals ( many of which could be found no where else ) were under threat from developers. It told how the people were trying to save the valley where the plants and animals lived. all this was accompanied by a film of the forest and the plants and animals that lived their, and a film of the little donkey with her halo of butterflies, bowing to the statue and gazing at it adoringly (she look to all the world as though she was praying).