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  • 'People ask me' How can you reconcile Elvis impersonations with your choice of professional work? '' said Petrescu, who puts on his glittery suits and swivels his hips when not working as a parish priest in the Italian town of Avezzano.

    God Works in Mysterious Ways Bill Crider 2007

  • News: SORBO, Italy (Reuters) - Romanian-born Antonio Petrescu believes you can worship God and Elvis at the same time: as a Catholic priest and Elvis Presley impersonator, he finds his spiritual inspiration in the late rock legend.

    Archive 2007-10-14 Bill Crider 2007

  • 'People ask me' How can you reconcile Elvis impersonations with your choice of professional work? '' said Petrescu, who puts on his glittery suits and swivels his hips when not working as a parish priest in the Italian town of Avezzano.

    Archive 2007-10-14 Bill Crider 2007

  • News: SORBO, Italy (Reuters) - Romanian-born Antonio Petrescu believes you can worship God and Elvis at the same time: as a Catholic priest and Elvis Presley impersonator, he finds his spiritual inspiration in the late rock legend.

    God Works in Mysterious Ways Bill Crider 2007

  • “The war with the Russians is hard, very hard,” Petrescu said, but in the end, he believed, Hitler would save the world from the Bolshevists.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • Perhaps it would be Birobidzhan, Petrescu thought—Birobidzhan being the marshy area in eastern Siberia that Stalin had set aside for Jewish colonization in the twenties.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • MIHAIL SEBASTIAN was talking with his friend Camil Petrescu, a Nazi sympathizer.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • "People ask me 'How can you reconcile Elvis impersonations with your choice of professional work?'" said Petrescu, who puts on his glittery suits and swivels his hips when not working as a parish priest in the Italian town of Avezzano.

    Elvis priest... Terry Nelson 2007

  • "I met Maritza long ago in England," he said as Petrescu looked at him.

    Princess Maritza Percy James Brebner 1893

  • "We have no way of retreat, Captain," said Petrescu, and the look in his face told Ellerey plainly enough that, loyal as he was, he had little hope of success.

    Princess Maritza Percy James Brebner 1893

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