1: The well known sociologist and promoter of social studies in Italy, Giuseppe Toniolo (1845–1918) [...] 2: Cf. Migration Today, XXVI(5) 1998:14. For immigrants of Italy, cf. Rome Caritas: Immigrazione-Doss[...] 3: Cf. Gianfausto Rosoli, “I movimenti di migrazione e i cattolici,” in Storia della Chiesa XXII/I: [...]
4: Cf. Dudley Baines, Emigration from Europe, 1815–1930. London: McMillan, 1991. 5: The most exhaustive biography of Scalabrini is that of Mario Francesconi, Giovanni Battista Scala[...] 6: APF, N.S. 1908 vol. 461 Memoriale di Mons. Scalabrini sulla Commissione ‘Pro Emigratis Catholicis[...]
7: G.B. Scalabrini, L’emigrazione italiana in America. Osservazioni (Italian emigration to America: [...] 8: Id., Prima conferenza sull’emigrazione, 1891 (First conference on emigration). Piacenza: Istituto [...] 9: Regolamento della Congregazione dei Missionari per gli emigrati (Rules of the Congregation of the [...] 10: A first edition, Bishop Scalabrini’s and of some of his collaborators’ writings on the question of[...]
11: G.B. Scalabrini, Il socialismo e l’azione del clero (Socialism and the action of the clergy). Tori[...] 12: Id., First Conference... AGS AQ 01–07/1. 13: Cf. Id., L’Italia all’estero. Conferenza tenuta nel recinto dell’Esposizione di Arte Sacra in Tori[...] 14: Id., L’emigrazione italiana in America, op. cit., p. 11. 15: Cf. Id., Il socialismo e l’azione del clero, op. cit., pp. 81–86. 16: Id., Dell’assistenza alla emigrazione nazionale e degli istituti che vi provvedono (Assistance of[...] 17: Id., L’Italia all’estero, op. cit., p. 20. 18: Id., Il disegno di legge sulla emigrazione italiana. Osservazioni e Proposte (The legislative bill[...] 19: Id., L’emigrazione italiana in America, op. cit., p. 8. 20: Id., Il disegno di legge sulla emigrazione italiana, op. cit., pp. 32–33. 21: Id., L’Italia all’estero, op. cit., pp. 11–12. 22: Id., Il disegno di legge, op. cit., p. 46. 23: Id., L’emigrazione degli operai italiani (The emigration of Italian workers), in Atti e documenti [...] 24: Ibid., p. 1. 25: G.B. Scalabrini, Memoriale sulla Conregazione o Commissione ‘Pro Emigratis Catholicis’ (Memorandum[...]
26: Id., L’Emigrazione italiana in America, op. cit., p. 46. 27: Id., Memoriale sulla necessità di proteggere la nazionalità degli emigrati – A Leone XIII (appunti[...] 28: G.B. Scalabrini to Card. G. Simeoni, October 12, 1890. AGS BA 02–04/12. 29: G.B. Scalabrini, Memoriale sulla Congregazione o Commissione ‘Pro emigratis catholicis’, op. cit.,[...] 30: In his speech of October 15, 1901, to the Catholic Club of New York, Bishop Scalabrini said: “From[...] 31: G.B. Scalabrini, Memoriale sulla necessità di proteggere… op. cit., II, p. 375. 32: Cf. M. Francesconi, op. cit., p. 963. 33: Cf. The Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, October 3, 1901. 34: G.B. Scalabrini, Memoriale sulla Congregazione o Commission…op. cit., p. 194. 35: Cf. Speech to the Catholic Club of New York, op. cit.
36: From the Gazzetta Piemontese and reported in Mons. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini Vescovo di Piacenz[...] 37: “I missionari italiani all’estero (Italian missionaries abroad),” Corriere della Sera, June 1, 190[...] 38: G.B. Scalabrini, Ai missionari per gli Italiani nelle Americhe. Piacenza: Tip. Vesc. G. Tedeschi, [...] 39: Scalabrini to Zaboglio, Piacenza, May 18, 1891; Scalabrini to Zaboglio, Piacenza, February 4, 1895[...] 40: Mons. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini Vescovo di Piacenza. Trent’ Anni di Apostolato… op. cit., p. 36[...] 41: Scalabrini to Zaboglio, Piacenza, April 12, 1897. 42: G. B. Scalabrini, Regola della Congregazione dei Missionari di S. Carlo per gli Italiani Emigrati [...]
4: Cf. the Conference given by Comm. Malnate in Turin and published by the Editor Roux in 1899. 5: Anyone interested in knowing other details on this subject can read the pages on Brazil by the for[...]
1: AGS AQ 01–10, f. 1 2: AGS AMO 2–05/5 3: See Pp. 200–234 4: Reported from an interview with bishop Scalabrini in the Newspaper Italia Coloniale, December 1901[...]
1: Archives Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Vol. 257, N. 30 (Nov. 1887), 682–69[...] 2: Archives of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 79-E-2, Gibbons and Becker to Cardinal Simeoni. Wilming[...] 3: Cf. Silvano M. Tomasi, Piety and Power. The Role of Italian Parishes in the New York Metropolitan A[...] 4: Archivo S.C. Propaganda Fide, lettere e Decreti della Sac. Cong. ne e Biglietti di Mons. Segr. rio[...]
6: AGS AB 01–03/9 (draft): original in Latin. 7: Bishop Scalabrini refers to Leo XIII’s letter Quam Aerumnosa of December 10, 1888, reported above.[...]
11: AGS BA 02–09/6 (transcription); original letter in ASV, SS, 1894, rubr. 17, single fasc., f. 962v.[...] 12: He is sending copies of the new booklet on “Italian emigration”: Dell’assistenza alla emigrazione[...]
13: AGS BA 02–09/7 (original); draft with corrections in ASV, SS, 1894, rubr. 17, single fasc. f. 57 r[...] 14: In conveying Scalabrini’s request to Card. Ledochowski, Prefect of Propaganda Fide, after Card. Si[...]
16: AS BH 01–01/1 (original); draft in ASV, SS, 1894, rub. 17, single fasc., f. 109. 17: See Scalabrini to Rampolla, September 6, 1892 in ASV, SS, 1894, rub. 17, single fasc., ff. 104–10[...]
18: AS BA 02–10/16 (original); ASV, SS, 1894, rub. 17, single fasc., f. 114. He communicates the appoi[...] 19: Scalabrini communicated that Card. Bausa had accepted the appointment as Protector and transmitted[...]
21: AS BA 01–15/7 (original); ASSV, SS, 1894, rub. 17, single fasc., ff. 120–121. 22: The reference is to Bishop Geremia Bonomelli’s booklet, Roma e l’Italia e la realtà delle cose, Cr[...]
23: AGS BA 02–15/13 (transcription); ASV, SS, ibid. ff. 123, 124. 24: The Provincial in question was Fr. Domenico Vicentini. In his letter to Scalabrini, Fr. Vicentini [...] 25: Scalabrini clearly indicates the methods and abuses adopted in usurping membership in his congrega[...]
28: AGS 02–17/9c (draft). Unfortunately, the draft is full of gaps: the reference to Fr. Vicentini is [...] 29: To understand Scalabrini’s expressions, his admissions of Fr. Morelli’s inexperience and ingenuity[...] 30: He is referring to the letter, Ai Missionari per gl’Italiani nelle Americhe, 1892, reproduced in t[...] 31: Scalabrini returns to the subject of the accusations of liberalism that had wounded him. Regarding[...]
32: AGS, BA 02–17/11 (copy); ASV, SS, 1894, ibid., ff. 147–148v. The apostolic delegate in the United [...] 33: Archbishop Satolli, Apostolic delegate in the United States, had written from Washington, D.C.,[...]
27: This Memorial, attached to the letter of Bishop Scalabrini to Cardinal Merry del Val of May 5, 190[...] 28: The following paragraph was included in the Studi Emigrazione text of this Memorial: “Seeds migra[...]
1: Richard N. Juliani, “Church records as Social data: The Italians in Philadelphia in the Nineteent[...] 2: “Minutes of the Roman Meeting preparatory to the III Plenary Council of Baltimore,” The Jurist, IX[...] 3: Cf. Stephen Di Giovanni, Michael Augustine Corrigan and the Italian Immigrants: The relationship B[...] 4: The long and patient work of analysis of the new waves of Italian emigration, of contacts and of e[...] 5: The original letters of Bishop Scalabrini to Archbishop Corrigan are found in the Archive of the A[...]
6: AGS EB 01–03 (photocopy of the original in AANY). 7: This letter from Archbishop Corrigan, not found in the archives, is probably his answer to Bishop [...] 8: Il Catechista Cattolico, was a Catechetical magazine begun by some priests of Piacenza with the a[...] 9: The pamphlet referred to is Italian Emigration to America, as mentioned in no. 7. 10: Bishop Scalabrini refers to his “Project for an Association to Provide for the Spiritual Need of t[...]
11: ASCPF, Congressi, Collegi Vari, Vol 43, f.1501–2 (copy). 12: Father Emiliano Kirner had arrived to assist the Italians of New York in 1884, first missionary of[...]
15: AGS EB 01–03 (copy of the original in AANY). 16: This letter of October 1887 has not been found in the archives. 17: Cardinal Giovanni Simeoni, born near Palestrina (Rome) in 1816, had been Papal Nuncio to Spain, S[...] 18: Father Marcellino Moroni had proposed that some seminarians should be sent from Italy to complete[...] 19: The Brief is that of Leo XIII, Libenter Agnovimus, of November 15, 1887, approving the establishme[...]
20: ASCPF, S.C. Amer. Centr., 1888, vol.54, f. 809r (original). 21: John Ireland (1838–1918), first Archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, was a key figure of the Cathol[...]
22: AGS EB 01–03(Copy of the original in AANY). 23: In Propaganda Fide’s letter to Archbishop Ireland (November 25, 1887, ASCPF, Collegi d’Italia, Pia[...] 24: The St. Raphael’s Society had been founded in Mainz, Germany, in 1871 by Peter Paul Cahensly (183[...]
29: AGS EB 01–03 (copy of the original in AANY). 30: Father Francesco Zaboglio, born in Campodolcino (Como) in 1852, belonged to the clergy of the Dio[...]
33: AGS EB 01–03 (copy of original in AANY). 34: Father Felice Morelli, born Tommaso Macrelli in Corpolo’ (Forli’) in 1843, has been the first Sca[...] 35: Father Amos Astorri was born in Piacenza in 1855. He joined the Scalabrinian Congregation when alr[...] 36: Reference is made to Msgr. Gennaro De Concilio. Cf. Note 32.
45: AGS EB 01–04 (Copy of the original and draft). 46: The two new Missionaries were Father Giacomo Annovazzi and Father Oreste Alussi. Fr. Anovazzi work[...] 47: The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, founded by Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini in 1880 in Cod[...] 48: Mrs. Cesnola is the wealthy Mary Jennings Reid, a convert to Catholicism, who married in 1861 the [...]
52: AGS EB 01–04 (original). In the letter, Father Felice is Morelli and Father Marcellino is Moroni. [...] 53: Salesian Sisters are the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mother Cabrini at the beginning[...]
54: AGS EB 01–04 (original). 55: The Mother Superior is Frances Xavier Cabrini, who had arrived in New York on May 31, 1889 on the[...] 56: Father Giulio Arcese, OFM, had started organizing religious services for Italians in the basement [...] 57: The parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel had been founded by the Pallottine Fathers in 1884 in East [...] 58: Probably the festivities referred to are those celebrating Italian unity and the end of the tempor[...]
69: Letter published in Il Catechista Cattolico, the magazine of the permanent Committee of the First [...] 70: The First Catechetical Congress was held in Piacenza under the effective presidency of Bishop Sca[...] 71: Bishop Geremia Bonomelli (1831–1914) of Cremona was a great friend of Bishop Scalabrini and one o[...] 72: Cf. Peter Guilday, A History of the Councils of Baltimore (1791–1884). New York: MacMillan, 1932.[...]
73: AGS EB 01–05 (Copy of the original in AANY). 74: Father Pietro Bandini, born in Forli in 1852, entered the Society of Jesus and reached the mission[...] 75: Five Sisters of St. Anne, cf. Note 43, at the beginning of April 1891 were working at the small It[...] 76: Cf. Note 82.
78: AGS EB 01–05 (original). 79: Msgr. Gherardo Ferrante (1853–1921) was born and ordained a priest in Fosinone. Invited to New Yor[...] 80: The encyclical of Leo XIII on social issues is Rerum Novarum published on May 15,1891.
81: Letter published in Il Catechista Cattolico, the magazine of the Permanent Committee of the First [...] 82: Cf. Note 70. 83: On September 27, 1891, the basement of a church for the Italians, dedicated to the precious Blood [...]
85: AGS EB 01–05 (Copy of the original in AANY). 86: This could be a reference to the Circular Letter on the St. Raphael’s Society carrying the same da[...] 87: The Marquis Gian Battista Volpe-Landi of Piacenza (1840–1918), where he practiced law, was a most[...] 88: Peter Paul Cahensly, cf. Note 24, was a pioneer in the defense of the rights of immigrants and an [...] 89: Cardinal Ignazio Persico (Naples 1823 –Rome 1895) had been a missionary and Bishop in India and t[...] 90: Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1843–1913), a Sicilian nobleman, held various offices in th[...] 91: The Archbishop of Baltimore is Cardinal James Gibbons (1834–1921), former Bishop of North Carolina[...]
92: AGS EB 01–05 (original). 93: Reference is made to the Lucerne Memorial prepared on December 9–10, 1890, by the Delegates of the[...] 94: Writing to Archbishop Corrigan on June 27, 1891, Cardinal Simeoni assured that the Pope was dealin[...] 95: This is the pamphlet of Msgr. Gennaro de Concilio. Cf. Note 25. On the pastoral requests of the va[...]
115: AGS EB 01–06 (Copy of original in AANY). The problems concerning the Most Precious Blood Churc[...] 116: On July 14, 1897, an explosion caused by a gas leak in the basement of the Church of Our Lady of P[...]
119: AGS EB 01–07 (Original). 120: Father Giacomo Gambera (1856–1934) of the diocesan clergy of Brescia entered the Congregation of [...] 121: The Jubilee celebrations are those of June 15–17, 1901 for the 25 years of episcopate of Bishop Sc[...]
124: AGS EB 01–07 (Original). Bishop Scalabrini had arrived in New York on August 3. As he reported to[...] 125: Ellis Island is in New York Bay and served for the processing of immigrants on the part of the Ame[...] 126: The Barge Office was the bureau of the United States Government for the reception of immigrants la[...] 127: The Immigration Home was a building at n. 219 Bleeker Street, Manhattan, with a dozen beds, a k[...]
130: AGS EB 01–07 (Original). 131: This note of Bishop Scalabrini has not been found. 132: The Catholic Club of New York (120 Central Park South) had as members the prominent Catholics of t[...]
143: AGS EB 01–07 (Original). 144: The pastoral visitation of Bishop Scalabrini to the United States had a profound impact on his [...] 145: Cf. St. Raphael’s Society Records in the Archives of the Center for Migration Studies of New Yor[...] 146: In the name of Archbishop Corrigan, Msgr. Gherardo Ferrante transmitted to Bishop Scalabrini on No[...] 147: After Archbishop Corrigan’s death, Msgr. Ferrante wrote to Bishop Scalabrini on May 12, 1902: “I w[...]
1: ASCPF, Congressi, Collegi Vari, vol. 43, Ireland to Propaganda Fide, March 10, 1887, ff. 1496–1500[...] 2: There are only four letters exchanged, three of Archbishop Ireland and one of Bishop Scalabrini, a[...] 3: ASCPF, Collegi d’Italia, Piacenza, f. 1387. Cardinal Simeoni to Ireland, November 25, 1887. The fu[...] 4: Archives Parravicino of Como (A.P.C.), John Ireland to Sabina di Parravicino Revel. St. Paul, A[...] 5: A.P.C., John Ireland to Sabina di Parravicino Revel. St. Paul, November 27, 1901. 6: A.P.C. John A. Zahm, C.S.C., to Sabina di Parravicino Revel. Notre Dame, Indiana, January 14, 1902.[...] 7: AGS AR 04 01.G.B. Scalabrini. Discorso ai missionari partenti, January 24, 1889. 8: AGS AR 04 10. Parole ai Seminaristi dell’Arcidiocesi di S. Paolo, Stati Uniti, September 26, 1901.[...] 9: AGS AM 01 01. Scalabrini to Mangot, Washington, October 10, 1901. 10: AGS AM 01 01. Scalabrini to Mangot, New York, October 16, 1901.
11: AGS AL 02 16 (original in French). 12: Cf. Note 21 in the Scalabrini-Corrigan Correspondence. On the pastoral and political activity of A[...] 13: On January 11, 1887 Bishop Scalabrini wrote to Cardinal Simeoni Prefect of Propaganda Fide proposi[...] 14: Archbishop Ireland suggest the office of a Delegate or Vicar General of Bishop Scalabrini in the U[...]
14: AGS, 663/1. Francis Janssens, Bishop of Natchez since 1881, was appointed Archbishop of New Orlean[...] 15: Bishop Scalabrini’s response has not been found, but he wrote to Father Zaboglio on December 3, 18[...]
16: AGS,663/1. 17: On December 21, 1891, Father Zaboglio will report to Bishop Scalabrini: “Now, about New Orleans. A[...] 18: A major task of Archbishop Janssens was in fact the reduction of, at that time, enormous diocesan [...]
23: AGS, 625/1a. Archbishop William Henry Elder served in Cincinnati from 1880 as Coadjutor and from [...] 24: On December 21, 1891, Father Zaboglio could report to Bishop Scalabrini that some progress had bee[...]