Category: Italian Heritage

Maria Santissima del Bagno

6 June 2011

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

2 June 2011

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

28 May 2011

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

27 May 2011

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

5 March 2011

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...

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