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According to poet Dante Alighieri, who is considered the father of Italian language, Assisi should have changed its name. "He who speaks of this place, should not say Ascesi," suggests the poet in the tenth Canto of his Paradise.   "Ascesi" (i.e. Assisi) is a much too short, too limited name. The city should have been called Oriente, si...

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I made a long overdue pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Peace Church (522 Carroll St.) in Gowanus, recipe Brooklyn, Sunday morning for the external solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord. Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Missa Cantata) was sung by celebrant and homilist Fr. Christopher Cullen, who was assisted by several attentive altar servers. Ar...

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Documentary film about the history of the Santa Lucia Festival and Omaha's Little Italy For more info visit www.santaluciadocumentary.com/   Get your tickets at www.TicketOmaha.com    Fonte: Magna Grece      

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The official library of the Holy See is undertaking a massive digitization project designed to upload hundred of thousands of books and images from its physical archives into an online database.   As Business Insider reports, nonprofit organization Digita Vaticana Onlus was founded in 2013 with the goal digitizing 80,000 manuscripts. That's...

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In the season for lost gloves, one mitt found a lot of love. The faithful got to touch one of the gloves Padre Pio used to cover his stigmata during a special mass at St. Finbar Roman Catholic Church in Bath Beach on Feb. 23.   Stigmata are marks resembling the wounds of Christ’s crucifixion said to appear on particularly holy people. The ho...

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Youngstown, Ohio, never developed a centralized little Italy. Instead, the city's mostly southern Italian settlers chose to live near the foundries, rail yards, and steel mills where Germans, Spaniards, Welsh, Slavs, Irish, African American, and others also called home.   Of these the two most iconic neighborhoods that boasted large Italian...

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by Matt Conti   Honoring one of the newer saints, a group from St. Leonard Church held the fifth annual procession for Saint Padre Pio on Sunday, June 28th in Boston's North End. The statue of St. Pio was carried from St. Leonard Church after an Italian Mass and walked through the neighborhood streets where devotees pinned donations on ribbo...

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Like a lot of folks, Steve Carcarey and his wife, Patrizia, looked forward to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Italian Feast in Bridgeport every year.   But unlike others who can do no more than mourn the untimely end of the line for the nearly century-old event that would have been held this weekend, the couple is in a position to host a crowd-...

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Mons. Giuseppe De Candia, direttore per la Puglia della Fondazione Migrantes e padre spirituale dei molfettesi nel mondo, instancabile ottantaquattrenne e inarrestabile giramondo amatissimo dai fedeli della sua "parrocchia", diffusa su tutta la Terra, tiene insieme una comunità geograficamente ampia e distante.   Anche quest'anno, infatti, n...

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By Sue Strachan The Piazza D'Italia in downtown New Orleans was a fitting setting for the Italian-American Marching Club Pre-Parade Celebration on Sunday, March 9. The Piazza was built in 1978 to commemorate Italian immigrant contributions to New Orleans.   The sunny skies and spring-like temperatures, no doubt, added to the joyful atmosphe...

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