O Rosario benedetto di Maria
Prayer at Noon For Catholics in Italy and throughout the world, tomorrow, Sunday, 7 October 2018, marks the return of an appointment with the Supplica,...
Evviva Sant’Antonio!
Six years ago at this time I was in my beloved ancestral town of Piedimonte–Matese for the procession of the relics of Sant’Antonio. This is...
Quis resistet Sancti Michaelis gladio?
I wrote and posted this piece in 2006: Angels Everywhere Italian baroque churches are full of representations of the angels. There are majestic angels of...
O Augusta Regina delle Vittorie
Prayer at Noon For Catholics in Italy and throughout the world, Sunday, 4 October 2015, marks the return of an appointment with the Supplica, the...
Saint Michael the Archangel
The devotion to Saint Michael the Archangel is very strong in Campania. It would seem that the Basilian Monks, who fled Greece to settle in...
Maria Santissima del Bagno
Last night’s festivities in honour of la Madonna del Bagno began with Holy Mass at 7:00 p.m. The Father Guardian of the Franciscan Solitude of...
Festa di San Marcellino, Sacerdote e Martire
June 2nd is the feast of Saint Marcellino, priest and martyr, the very one named in the Roman Canon. San Marcellino fills Piedimonte d’Alife with...
Benedict XVI at Saint Mary Major
My Musings Returning to Sepicciano, where the church bells ring out the quarter hour and the parish church is truly the heart of the village;...
Tornato a Sepicciano
How can I express the joy that I feel here? I arrived yesterday afternoon in the ancestral home of my great-grandmother in Sepicciano, Piedimonted’Alife. The...
Saint Giovan Giuseppe della Croce
I almost forgot that today is the feast of Saint Giovan Giuseppe della Croce. A Family Connection My mother’s grandmother was born and raised in...
Evviva San Gennaro!
The miracle of Saint Januarius recurred at 9:45 this morning in the cathedral of Naples, filled with expectant devotees of the bishop of Benevento beheaded...
More Photos of Pasquetta 2007 in Sepiccciano
The 17th century Palazzo Onoratelli was the home of my great–grandmother Emma Onoratelli Barbato. The stucco ornamentation in the baroque style — with smiling angels...
Pranzo at Sepicciano: Pasquetta
My cousin Carlo de Lellis and his wife Nora invited me to the Onoratelli ancestral home in Sepicciano for the second day of Pasquetta, the...
Auguri, Sissi!
Another joy today! My cousin Carlo de Lellis and Nora, his wife, called from Sepicciano (Piedimonte Matese, Provincia di Caserta) to inform me that their...
Michaelmas Day
SEPTEMBER 29 SAINTS MICHAEL, GABRIEL, AND RAPHAEL, ARCHANGELS Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Apocalypse 12: 7-12ab Psalm 137:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 4-5 John 1:45-51 Angels Everywhere One of the...