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- 33. Scalabrini to Corrigan Piacenza, March 18, 1891
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33.
Scalabrini to Corrigan73
Piacenza, March 18,
1891
Most Reverend Excellency:
The bearer of this letter is Father Pietro
Bandini74 who is coming
there to accompany the Sisters of St. Anne who are
destined for the administration of the Columbus Hospital.75 I see that this undertaking is
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opposed, and that means that God wants it. I hope that the
Missionaries, with your assistance as always, will succeed.
I
have received your beautiful work on the Catechism.
It will be printed in next month’s issue.76
In Italy
people will be surprised to see that the Archbishop of New York writes Italian
so well, even better than a learned Italian. Bravo, Bravissimo, Archbishop, and
my most sincere congratulations.
In
Rome, where I
went in January, much was said about you and I found with great pleasure that
you are liked very much and highly esteemed and that your great virtue and
apostolic zeal are appreciated.
I
embrace you in the Lord. Pray for me and I remain
Your most Reverend Excellency’s very
affectionate confrere and friend,
Gio. Battista, Bishop of Piacenza
P.S. Affectionate greetings to Don Carlo.
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 missions of the Northwest United States in
1882 among the Crow and Cheyenne Indians. He returned to Europe in 1889, left
the Society, joined the Congregation of Bishop Scalabrini and in 1891 returned
to New York
where he established the St. Rapahel’s Italian Benevolent Society to care for
immigrants arriving at that port. He opened a chapel that later became the
parish of Our lady of Pompei in lower Manhattan.
In 1894 he left the Scalabrinian Congregation and went to found the rural
colony of Tontitown in Arkansas.
There he remained as pastor to his death on January 1, 1917.
75 Five Sisters of St. Anne, cf. Note
43, at the beginning of April 1891 were working at the small Italian hospital
at 109th East Street
of Manhattan
started by Father Morelli and named after Christopher Columbus. Economic
difficulties and the Rule of the Sisters forbidding them to beg led to their
substitution with the Sisters of Mother Cabrini. In July 1891 the St. Anne
Sisters went back to Italy.
The same economic difficulties and the contrasts between Mother Cabrini and
Father Morelli led to the failure of the hospital. A new one was started by
Mother Cabrini in October 1892, the Columbus
Hospital, that continued
to develop to the present.
76 Cf. Note 82.
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