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LITTLE ITALY In BALTIMORE, MD. Presents ANNUAL STREET FEAST OF "ST. GABRIEL"SATURDAY & SUNDAY, AUGUST 17-18, 2013 ~ 11 AM to 7 PMLITTLE ITALY - St LEO's Parish Church Exeter and Stiles streets | BALTIMORE, MD.    LITTLE ITALY a charming, cozy neighborhood located in the heart of downtown Baltimore is an importan...

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A seven-decades-old Bensonhurst tradition has again been sustained at the 11th hour. The organizers of the Festa di Santa Rosalia, a 10-day street festival and celebration of Italian edibles — have resolved a series of glitches involving street-closure permits and tax documents that had to be filed with the city, enabling them to carry on the feas...

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Chicago's Lincoln Park is one of the priciest neighborhoods in the city. But it's also home to a sacred place honoring a champion of the poor. The shrine and chapel dedicated to Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini had been shuttered for a decade, and there were concerns that it might never reopen. But it has. The site was rededicated on Sunday with a mas...

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by Holly Erickson After last year's North Beach Christmas walk was rained out by the big storm and blackout of December 2014, North Beach Neighbors president Trish Herman and local merchants have decided to hedge their bets against another washout, especially given this winter's predicted El Niño rains. The result is the 2015 Festival of Light and...

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The Gulf Coast Italian American Cultural Society will hold an English/Italian Mass and Homemade Italian Lunch on Epiphany Sunday, Jan. 5, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church and Community Center, 720 East Beach Blvd., Long Beach.   The Mass will be at 11 a.m. and will be concelebrated by the Revs. Joe Dilettuso, Mike Austin and Michael Marascal...

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Sunday, September 28th, members of the Società Sant'Amato di Nusco of Long Island City, New York (47-39 Vernon Boulevard) gathered at Saint Mary's Church (10-08 49th Avenue), to celebrate the Annual Mass and Procession in honor of Saint Amato, patron saint of Nusco, Avellino.   I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and appreciation to t...

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by Nikitta Foston   Thousands gathered at a church in suburban Chicago on Wednesday to visit a display holding the remains of Maria Goretti, an 11-year-old Italian girl who became the Roman Catholic Church's youngest saint. The skeleton of Goretti, who was stabbed to death during an attempted rape in 1902, was encased in a wax statue ly...

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Nella descrizione dei rapporti tra Italia e Usa l'emigrazione italiana ha un ruolo fondamentale. La Fondazione Migrantes pubblica dal 2006 il rapporto annuale sugli Italiani nel mondo, insostituibile punto di riferimento per chi si occupa di questo tema. Abbiamo chiesto alla redattrice capo del progetto, Delfina Licata, di parlarcene. Come è nata...

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It rained for St. Joseph on Sunday. It was as if the group of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church parishioners planned it that way.   Weeks after preparing just about every imaginable dessert, the cooks had to fire up the spaghetti pots and fish fryers under the shelter of tents as Saturday night rain lasted through most of Sunday morning...

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The Siena Cathedral's Gate to Heaven opened on March 9 and will remain open until October 31, 2015. Thanks to a project by Opera della Metropolitana di Siena, visitors can now enjoy a unique view of the magnificent Romanesque-Gothic church built between the 13th and 14th centuries, from a place as high up as the stars.   The Tuscan city's cr...

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