Tony Demarco Special Events

VOL. 122 - NO. 50 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 14, 2018 $.35 A COPY 2018 North End Christmas Parade Brings Santa by Helicopter by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com The 47th North End Christmas Parade brought Santa to the neighborhood in fi rst class fashion via his own helicopter. The chilly but sunny weather brought out hundreds to the waterfront’s Puopolo Field for Santa’s arrival followed by the Christmas Parade through the neighborhood streets. Two marching bands played (Photos by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com) holiday music while costumed characters took pictures with the (Continued on Page 6) kids. Of course, it’s not a parade without antique cars and fi re trucks. The parade is dedicated in memory of James “Jimmy” Pallotta and sponsored by the North End Athletic Association in association with the Taste of the North End, Nazzaro Center, North End Against Drugs and Mayor’s Offi ce of Tourism and Tony DeMarco Special Events. Buon Natale! To be Inducted IntoThe International Boxing Hall of Fame by Bobby Franklin, Boxing Ringside Former Undisputed Welter- weight Champion and Boston favorite son Tony DeMarco was News Briefs known in his day as an active by Sal Giarratani boxer as having a devastating knockout punch. In 58 victories he kayoed 33 opponents. He just wants to be Younger While he did go the distance A Dutch motivational speaker named Emile on a number of occasions, no Ratelband says he feels like he’s 49 years old, but fi ght lasted as long as his wait according to Dutch law, he is 69 years old. A Dutch to be honored with an induction court rejected his age change saying he can feel what- into the International Boxing ever age he wishes even one 20 years younger if he Hall of Fame in Canastota, NY. wishes BUT amending the date on his birth certifi cate Politics and personalities play a would cause 20 years of records on him to disappear. role in these things, but Tony is According to the court, “This would have a variety of fi nally being recognized for the undesirable legal and societal implications.” great champion he was and is. When Ratelband went to court last month, he argued It is an honor he deserved long that he didn’t feel 69 and said his request was con- ago and, as the saying goes, all good things come to those who sistent with other forms of personal transformations. Still ready to go a few rounds. In the Netherlands, citizens have the ability to change wait. their names and genders. DeMarco will be inducted on Johnny Saxton with a brutal the weekend of June 6, 2019. 14th round knockout. It was an He said he would appeal the court’s decision and Tony DeMarco Statue located He will now be part of the Hall of impressive performance in the fi ght on. You know what? In the end, just watch, he at the corner of Cross and Fame that includes his most fa- Boston Garden just down the will get the right to offi cially change his age. You know Hanover Streets in Boston’s mous rival and long time friend, street from where Tony lived. what, changing your age sounds pretty interesting. North End Shaving 20 years off life sounds good, but only if God the late Carmen Basilio. He was magnifi cent that night goes with it, and gives the 20 years back. DeMarco’s boxing career putting on an outstanding per- score cards and was headed to Quote to Note was remarkable. During his formance. He had his shot at the victory when he ran out of gas. “Be who you are, say what you feel, because those 14 years in the professional title and was not going to let it The fi ght was voted Fight of the who mind don’t matter, those that matter don’t mind.” ring he defeated eight world get away from him. Year by Ring Magazine, and it — Dr. Seuss champions. The biggest of these Later that same year he would was one of the most exciting ring victories came on the night of lose the championship to Car- battles of all time. Basilio and April 1, 1955, when he won the men Basilio. In the Basilio fi ght welterweight title from champion DeMarco was ahead on all the (Continued on Page 12) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, DECEMBER 14, 2018 Saint Marie of the Incarnation by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari Marie was born Marie Guyart in Tours, France on October 28, 1599. She was the fourth of Florent Guyart and Jeanne Michelet’s eight children, from an early age she was drawn to religious liturgy and the sacra- THE ROMAN FUNERAL “PREP” ments. When Marie was seven years old, she experienced her clothed in a toga or robe of fi rst mystical encounter with offi ce, if appropriate. Precious Christ. She said “Yes” to the ornaments and rings were often Lord when she dreamed that he added. The corpse was placed on asked her to be His. a couch and then adorned with At age 17, although she was flowers. Among the Romans attracted to cloistered life, she as among the Greeks, it was obeyed her parents’ wishes ground of the place to which customary to place a small coin and married Claude Martin, we had come to fulfi ll our lives in the mouth of the deceased for a Master Silk worker. He died in the service of God and the the purpose of paying Charon’s only two years later leaving Indigenous people.” She was passage money. Charon was Marie a widow at 19 with a never to return to France. the ferryman from mythology six-month-old son, also named She organized the building who conveyed the dead souls Claude. With her husband’s of a small monastery for the across the River Styx in a lower death, Marie inherited his fail- consecrated community and a world called Hades (similar ing business, which she then boarding school for Indian and to our Purgatory). In Rome lost. Penniless, she went to live French girls whom the Ursulines as in Greece, coins have been with her family. decided to shelter and educate During the past two issues, we upon anyone who found an un- found in the mouths of many In 1621, her brother-in-law together. She welcomed and examined the vigil and funeral buried body to at least cast earth skeletons. asked her to take over the fed the Huron and Algonquin procession that was generally upon it three times. If funeral All of the preparations management of his transporta- adults who knocked at the observed in ancient Greece. rites were not performed, the necessary for the proper laying tion company. She spent her door; she gave them Christian This week I thought it might soul of the dead person was out of the body were performed days in a stable in the harbor. instruction and encouraged be of interest to outline these believed to wander homelessly by an embalmer. He usually It also served as a storehouse them to share the Good News same events as they were upon the earth forever. When made the original cast of the and a shelter for longshoremen. with their communities. observed in ancient Rome. I a person was on his deathbed death mask, but the contract for She could sometimes be found She wrote the Constitutions feel it necessary to remind our a near relative caught the last conducting the entire funeral late into the night at the wharf, and Rule of the Ursulines of readers once again, however, breath in his own mouth and was made with an undertaker. supervising the loading and Quebec (1647), and created the “funus” is the Latin word as soon as death came, the eyes After the body was properly unloading of merchandise. dictionaries, grammars, cat- for rope, cable, or cord. It is and mouth of the corpse were prepared and adorned, it Her call to religious life pur- echisms and prayer books in also the name that was given closed by one of those present. was laid on a couch of state, sued her, so in 1631, she asked four First Nations languages. to the funeral rites in ancient Next came the “conclamatio” her sister to look after her son, Then, at the request of her generally in the atrium of the Rome. Their Latin word “funus,” a cry or the recall of the dead, who was now 12 years old, and son, by now a member of the domus, with the feet towards and in turn, our English word by uttering his or her name she entered the novitiate of the Benedictine Order, she wrote the door. Outside of the front “funeral,” are both derived from three times in order to ascer- monastery of the Ursulines an autobiographical memoir door, they placed cypress or the burial procession during tain the fact of death. If there of Tours. She took the reli- on “her states of prayer and pine branches in order to warn those ancient times which was no answer, then the per- gious name of Marie of the of grace”.

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