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Since the cornerstone was laid in 1927, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church at 28 Mulberry St. has been serving the community; in particular, it has served as a home base, of sorts, for the Italian community. As decades have passed, the church has suffered a number of woes, including potentially serious structural issues that need to be addressed.  ...

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By Joe Rodriguez   Almost every Saturday since Bill Greco's beloved church burned down in a spectacular fire a year ago, the semiretired Italian-American Catholic has been collecting bottles and aluminum cans from the county fairgrounds to raise money for the rebuilding.   "I got some guff for taking it from the fairgrounds, but I can...

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An icon of Our Lady Our Lady paintingof the Immaculate Conception will be on display at St. Leo's Church in Little Italy in Baltimore during the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Marian Prayer Program - after 11:30am Mass. The icon is a copy of the painting of Our Lady that graces the nave of the Basilica Cathedral Notre Dame de Quebec.  ...

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By Paolo Jorio Invenzione, devozione popolare, religiosità, spettacolarità, tutto questo e altro racchiude la prima mostra tematica del Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro dedicata agli Argenti. Un percorso di splendori lungo sette secoli che oggi è possibile ammirare intatto grazie all'opera meritoria della Deputazione.   Molti degli oggetti e...

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The Santa Lucia Italian Festival begins its 90th festival on June 5th with the return of the Triumphal Arch.   The Arch, which has been absent from the festival for nearly 10 years, was designed decades ago by early Italian immigrants and is still considered a proud engineering feat.   Read more   Source: http://www.wowt.c...

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The annual Festa Italiana at St. Anthony Church in Schenectady has brought the community together for more than a century, but after a fire devastated the church back in March, many thought the tradition would be broken.   Frank Ranucci is a part of St. Anthony's Church in Schenectady. He was raised in the church, was an altar boy, even got...

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I returned to Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Thursday night to celebrate the Feast of San Donato. Now in its 18th year, the street celebration continues to draw devotees from across the Tri-State area. Francesca Mazza, who has a special devotion to San Donato, organizes the Feast in memory of her beloved mother.   The Mazza family generously set...

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by Mark A. Kellner   There may be no way to number the pictures of Jesus extant in the world today, but you can add one more to their ranks — a computer-generated "photo fit" image of Christ as a boy, courtesy of Italy's police.   "The 'angelic' face of a 12-year-old Jesus has been created using the image taken from the Shroud of Turi...

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by Richard Khavkine   For 15 hours beginning Thursday evening, congregants of the church of Our Lady of Peace commemorated nearly 100 years of history. Following a noontime Solemn Mass on Friday, there would be no more. The red brick church with neat white stone trim on a tidy Upper East Side block of three- and four-story brownsto...

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Dear Members and Friends, I am pleased to share with you a unique opportunity to experience the "Black Madonna" with Alessandra Belloni in Italy this August. As you know, Alessandra is an expert on the Black Madonna and has devoted much of her career to spreading Her meaning and message through dance and song as well as lectures and performances....

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