The family of Pasqua Gaudiuso Cama, who in 1951 immigrated to Brooklyn from Bari, Italy, honored her on Sunday, Dec. 17, when they donated, in her name, a statue of St. Nicholas of Bari to Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Parish, Carroll Gardens.
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Brooklyn Priest’s Beekeeping Hobby Is ‘A Way to Worship or Praise God’
The term “domestic engineer” applies to a stay-at-home parent or person tasked with various homemaking duties — much like a worker bee in a honey-producing hive.
Only In Print: Celebrate the Risen Lord with Easter Bread
Rings of Easter bread, or Pane di Pasqua in Italian, exuding the aroma of sweet cake, emerged from the oven of Caputo’s Bake Shop the day before Palm Sunday.
Union Man Took His Ideas to the Grave Sans Headstone
In the late 1930s, longshoreman and union activist Pete Panto stood up to organized crime thugs, who kidnapped and murdered him. His grave has no headstone, but now efforts are underway to correct that.
More Than 1,000 Rally to Support Mother Cabrini Statue
The cause is personal for Msgr. Cassato. One night in 1953, David Cassato, then 5 years old, was headed home from his grandparents’ house. He turned to his father and asked about a photo he had seen. That night, he first heard about Mother Cabrini, who had helped Msgr. Cassato’s grandparents when they came from Sicily to the Lower East Side of Manhattan on 1910 with nothing.
Diocese Announces Procession, Mass to Support Mother Cabrini Statue
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Italian Apostolate will hold a procession and Mass on Oct. 6 in support of a public statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini.
Celebrations in Carroll Gardens
Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen parish, Carroll Gardens, welcomed its new statue of St. John the Baptist that was commissioned by the Society of the Citizens of Pozzallo, located on Henry St. It is a replica of the statue in the town of Pozzallo located in Southern Sicily. plaque
Brooklynites Rediscover Italian Roots
Carroll Gardens Parishioners Go on Pilgrimage to Land of Their Ancestors Parishioners of Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen, Carroll Gardens, led by their pastor Msgr. Guy Massie, returned on pilgrimage to the towns and cities in Italy from which their ancestors and founders had emigrated more than 100 years ago. “It was a journey to reconnect with […]
Sorrowful Mother in Carroll Gardens
Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez joined Msgr. Guy Massie, pastor; Father Cletus Forson, parochial vicar; and hundreds of past and present parishioners of Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens, for the parish’s decades-old Good Friday street procession. Led by a large red cross, the faithful recall Christ’s Passion by candlelight, carrying statues of the Body of […]
Photos: Italians Honor Our Lady Of Sorrows
Brooklyn’s first Italian Roman Catholic parish – Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen, Carroll Gardens – hosted the Congrega Maria S.S. Addolorata and the people of Mola Di Bari on Sept. 8 as they honored the feast of their hometown patron saint, Our Lady of Sorrows, with a traditional Italian street procession and Mass. This year marked the […]