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Silvano Tomasi – Gianfausto Rosoli
For the Love of Immigrants
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Part 2 Correspondence
- 4 Bishop Scalabrini and Archbishop Corrigan (1887–1902)
  - 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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