ocr: - E THE SEAMENS e THE SUMEEN, FARLT IhAI BORINAGE Back broken by a coal tunnel cave-in 45. years ago, Gtovanni Russo (left) rests in his bed- room in the Borinage region of Belgium. He fingers a photograph of his wife, who prayed to St. Anthony to bring him home: safely from the mines. After ahan- doning religious: studies, van Gogh moved to this bleak aren on the French border to work as an evan- gelist among the poor, giving away most of his dothes and spending his nights nursing miners burned. in underground explesions, His neighbors called him mad or a saint. His church superiors dismissed ...
