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Late on a brisk December night we are leaning over the railing of Lecce's ancient Roman amphitheater, looking down past the tiered stone seating to a manor farm, or masseria. Below, on what was once an arena for feats of hunting, flagstones now lead from a flat-roofed stone farmhouse to a tidy vineyard and a kitchen garden growing a healthy stand o...

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By Giovanni di Napoli Sunday morning (Oct. 4th), I took a subway ride to Most Precious Blood Church (113 Baxter Street) in Manhattan's Historic Little Italy to attend the 112th Annual Feast of Saints Cosma and Damiano, patrons of San Cosmo Albanese in Calabria. This year, returning to their roots, organizers decided to forgo the annual Latin rite...

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The sights, the sounds, as well as the inside scoop on the 84th annual Saint Rocco Grande Festa. Held every second weekend in August for the past 84 years on the streets of Edgeworth in Ward 2, the Feast has become one of the last vestiges of Malden's storied past, a tradition held close to those of us who grew up in this great city of ours, who g...

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by Rochelle Del Borrello   I've always had a soft spot for Sicilian churches which are a bountiful source of art and a depository for local history. From the cathedrals in the major cities to the 'chiesa madre' of any small 'paese', the humble Roman Catholic church contains a wealth of beauty which is hard to resist.   It is a secret...

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Domenica 4 agosto, una consistente fetta della comunità italiana della grande area metropolitana di New York si è ritrovata a Queens per festeggiare la Madonna della Libera e l'associazione culturale italiana ad essa collegata.   La Madonna della Libera è venerata in tutto il Benevenetano ed aree limitrofe. L'associazione fu costituita oltre...

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After successful visits to the New York tri-state area this past February, and to southern California in April, two important relics of St. Anthony of Padua are returning to the United States for a nine-day tour of Illinois and Wisconsin. The event, organized by the Messenger of St. Anthony magazine directed by the Franciscan Friars of the Pontific...

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Thirteen years ago Pope Francis was still known as Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires. In 2000, Bergoglio led a procession through the streets of the Argentinean capital carrying an ancient relic of St. Anthony of Padua. The popular Franciscan saint is known to help people find lost items such as lost jobs, lost homes, and lost hope.  ...

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On a block filled with boxy government buildings, an FBI field office and parked armored trucks, Holy Rosary Church in downtown Washington serves as a retreat to the old country for many in the area's Italian community.   Whether it's Sunday Mass conducted in Italian or an exchange of pleasantries between parishioners in a fellowship hall na...

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An oompah band played "When the Saints Go Marching In" as members of New Haven's oldest Italian-American mutual aid society carried its dollar-and-jewelry-bedecked patron through the streets of Wooster Square Sunday afternoon. It was the 114th year of the Old World-style ritual, and 73-year-old Patti Masto-Toni has participated in 73 of them. The...

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The Knights of Saint Francis—the organization created by former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Angela Alioto—has scheduled a special Mass to be held on Friday, June 13, 2014.   The Mass will be celebrated on the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, the Portuguese-born, thirteenth-century Franciscan friar and patron saint of Padua,...

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