The Santo (which is St. Antonio's church, called il Santo par excellence) […]

SF readers have been known to gafiate (=Get Away From It All) after college (give or take 4-5 years) since the 30's... only to degafiate a few years later in many cases.

He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.

Neanderthals were extremely tough—this is attested to by the thickness of their bones—and were probably capable of beating modern humans to a pulp.