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The Feast of San Rocco di Potenza at St. William Church in Chicago is sponsored by Congregazione di San Rocco di Potenza. It features a noon Mass on Aug. 20, followed by a procession with the Sicilian Band of Chicago, the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and a family festival with food and live entertainment. An anointing Mass will be celebrat...

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Jeane Marchitto of Rotterdam can never miss the annual summer party at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Schenectady. "It's like a magnet, it just draws you every year," said Marchitto, who at 90-plus has volunteered at the festa for decades. "It's something you want to do." Parishioners and friends of the church on Pleasant Street, in the city's Mo...

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La Chiesa della Madonna di Pompei situata nel cuore del Greenwich Village di New York rimane dopo oltre un secolo (fu costruita nel 1892) il fulcro della vita religiosa per i cattolici Italiani di Manhattan. Da circa un anno alla guida della Chiesa è Padre Walter Tonelotto, Scalabriniano, originario di Sant’Eulalia di Borso del Grappa, da ben quara...

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The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish summer festival will run Wednesday to Sunday at the church grounds, 381 Robbins Ave. Joe Merlo, festival chairman, said the event will include amusement rides, games, bingo and musical entertainment. He said the event will feature a variety of food including pizza, twists, cheese puffs, sausage sandwiches and desse...

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His Boston Red Sox baseball hat is almost as big a part of him as his brown Franciscan habit. Anywhere Franciscan Father Flavian Mucci goes in El Salvador, he's known not only for his love of baseball, but more importantly, for the only thing he loves more than the game: the poor. Fifty years ago this July, Boston native Father Mucci arrived in El...

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The Feast of San Rocco di Simbario at St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church in Chicago is sponsored by the Society of San Rocco di Simbario. It features a 9 a.m. procession with candle houses and a 10:30 a.m. Mass on Aug. 13, followed by a procession, the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and kissing of the holy relic of San Rocco, and a buffet di...

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What’s called the “longest-running Italian festival in the country” returns this month. The 142nd Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival, begins Tuesday and runs through July 16. Run by the independent nonprofit Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, the festival is the nonprofit society’s biggest fundraiser, with about $...

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The Feast of San Lorenzo and San Rocco will be celebrated from Aug. 10 to 13 in Chicago Heights. The event is sponsored by the Amaseno Lodge No. 3 of Chicago Heights. Festivities culminate on Aug. 13 with an 11:30 a.m. Mass at the San Rocco Oratory in Chicago Heights, preceded and followed by processions from and to the lodge with the statues of Sa...

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St. Donatus Church will celebrate the 108th annual Feast of San Donato from Aug. 2 to 6. Festivities will culminate on Aug. 6 with a 10 a.m. Mass, followed by a procession featuring Caliendo’s Banda Napoletana, plus a $10,000 raffle. A street festival will feature live entertainment; rides and games; bingo; a beer garden; and food and beverage boot...

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Tens of thousands of people lined Lake Avenue in Charlotte for the St. Anthony’s Day parade every year for decades. The parade was a big part of the festivities, which in later years also included fireworks over Lake Ontario and a “blessing of the fleet” boat parade on the Genesee River. Floats, festival queens, firefighters and marching bands were...

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