Honoring St. Padre Pio October As Italian Heritage Month 50 Years After His Death by Matt Conti
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VOL. 122 - NO. 39 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 $.35 A COPY Join us for the 19th Anniversary of Honoring St. Padre Pio October as Italian Heritage Month 50 Years After His Death by Matt Conti The 19th Anniversary of October as Italian Heritage Month will offi cially begin on Monday, October 1st, at 6:00 pm in the House Chamber of the Massachusetts State House with the Honorable Speaker of the House, Representative Robert DeLeo serving as master of ceremonies. The event is co-sponsored by the Speaker of the House; the Consul General of Italy, Federica Sereni; and the Italian Heritage Committee. This year’s program will honor Fr. Antonio Nardoiainni, OFM, Pastor of St. Leonard of Port Maurice Church for Distinguished Community Service; Mogol, for Distinguished Service in Music and Language; and Rep. Paul Donato for Distinguished Public Service. The event will also provide scholarships for worthy students donated by C.A.S.IT, the East Boston Savings Bank, the Italian Consulate, and the St. Joseph’s Society. This year’s program will end on a special note with the signing of a “Common Accord” between the offi cers of the Italian American Alliance, the Asian American Association of Boston, and the Italian American Heritage Committee. The Accord reads as follows: This Alliance of Common Accord represents agreement between the Asian American Association of Boston and the Italian American Alliance — each representing distinct ethnic and racial identities, and each having confronted discrimination — but which hold common principles that bind us together in united cause. A procession honoring St. Padre Pio in organizers Anna D’Amore Sirignano and Natalina Given the righteousness of those common principles, recognition of the Feast Day, which celebrates Tizzano D’Amore. A blood-stained relic (fi rst- we pledge ourselves to work together and to mutually support the 50th Anniversary of his passing, was held class) of St. Pio’s glove was carried through the each other’s heritage, social welfare, educational, and on Sunday, September 23rd. Held in Boston’s streets. Following the procession, a Solemn Mass economic interests as though they were our own North End, the U.S. Coast Guard Color Guard was held at St. Leonard Church on Hanover for a more benefi cial American society. led the procession with family and friends of Street. (Additional Photos on Page 3) The accord will also be witnessed by the offi cers of the Italian American Heritage Committee. Throughout the month of October, Italian and Italian American Organizations will be celebrating Italian heritage with a wide variety Feast of San Gennaro including of events the traditional Christopher Columbus parade which will take place this year in East Boston. in Boston’s North End Features Entertainment & Italian Food by Matt Conti News Briefs by Sal Giarratani U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Monkey Wrench? The hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh was at an end. All the questions ended. It was time for the Senate Committee to take a vote! THEN, out of leftfi eld comes Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), holding a letter accus- ing the good judge of being a naughty teenager decades ago. Reportedly, she had this letter for several months but never brought it up or shared it with anyone includ- ing her own Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. We know Feinstein, isn’t she the senator who had a Chinese spy on her payroll for a number of years? Guess she never heard about the glass house scenario, eh? Did she wait this long only to cause turmoil and maybe try to stop Kavanaugh from getting confi rmed? What L-R: State Representative Joe Boncore, Frank DePasquale, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Angelo do you expect from some Democrats? Using a monkey Vigliota, Pasquale Trotta, Nick Varano, and State Representative Aaron Michlewitz wrench on the hearings, but failing to own a fl ashlight Italian feast food and enter- through 23, 2018. A newly- person at the Vatican. on her staff. tainment headlined the first created statue of Saint Gennaro With near perfect September Kavanaugh’s Confi rmation annual Feast of San Gennaro by sculptor Ettore Marinelli weather, crowds came out for No Longer a Sure Thing But ... on Hanover Street in Boston’s was revealed just weeks after it The latest news over this past weekend is that another North End on September 21 was blessed by Pope Francis in (Continued on Page 6) woman has reportedly come out of the woodwork to make her accusations against Judge Kavanaugh only makes things worse for Republicans. Things may have THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE gone from bad to worse for this nominee. It now sounds 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON like a “he said, she said, she said” thing. (Continued on Page 11) Tuesdays 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM — Thursdays 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 Remembering the Heroes of SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 by Sal Giarratani ROMAN LAW The early Roman law that be owned. Abandoned we’ve heard so much about property, gems found on in earlier years is the legal the seashore, and wild system which was devel- beasts are examples of oped about 450 B.C. some of the odd things When their laws were which could be owned. fi rst arranged into a sys- If a wild beast was found tematic collection, this col- and then escaped, the lection was known as the ownership was lost. A “Law of the Twelve Tables” person, who improved and it set simple rules another’s property believ- which were suitable for ing it to be his own, could the community as well as refuse to return it unless establishing equal treat- compensated for the work. ment for the rich and poor If a son was guilty for any L-R: Devon, Ryan, Dave, and Liane Sherman alike. Enactment of these early master could not order that a wrongdoings, the father could Every September, folks in East Boston gather together at Piers laws was through assemblies slave be put to death for any either pay the damages or sur- Park for its annual Memorial Service to remember those who of the common people, but this reason, however, reasonable render his son to the injured perished and honor our fi rst responders. This year’s event was kind of assembly soon fell out chastisement was permitted, party. held on Sunday, September 16th on a day that resembled very of use because large numbers and the master was not held These are just a few examples much Tuesday, September 11, 2001; a late warm summer day, of persons sitting together in liable if a slave died under the of the rules by which people blue skies picture perfect until the fi rst plane hit the fi rst tower. this manner were diffi cult to lash. Slaves, on the other hand, were required to live 2,000 years Then things quickly became not good. The events remain in the oversee and very expensive to were not without some protec- ago. Living conditions, social at- memory of those who lived through that day forever. bribe. Later, under the Roman tion under the law. titudes, literacy, and just plain The East Boston Community each year remembers the late Fran Republic, a Praetor or Magis- A poorly treated slave could basic survival probably forced Rowan who took the lead with help from Liane Sherman and began trate decided which cases were run away from his master and the enactment of laws which this annual event on September 11, 2002 with a small ceremony fi t to be brought before a judge take refuge at a statue of the seem absurd to us today. We at Piers Park where it has been held yearly since. and which were not. The Prae- emperor, thus compelling the should not lose sight of our Over the years, this event has grown in size and the number of tor also exercised other powers master to sell him to someone history of lawmaking since the folks helping to make it happen has grown too. In East Boston of decision regarding civil law. else. Paternal power was also Declaration of Independence folks have not forgotten 9/11 and never will. Still later under the emperors, highly recognized and seemed and those “blue laws” which those rulers or their designates to give absolute power to a fa- now seem equally ludicrous. made all of the necessary legal ther over his son, including any Two thousand years from now, decisions which, of course, were property that a son might have people might be writing about irrevocable. acquired. their ancestors who were re- These ancient statues con- There was also a “Law of quired by law to pay Federal in- tained a “Law of Persons” which Things” which made a distinc- come taxes, State income taxes, made distinctions between free- tion between things which could Social Security taxes, Real Es- men and slaves. A slave was be owned and those things tate taxes, Sales taxes, Gasoline considered personal property which could not. 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