VOL. 123 - NO. 32 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AUGUST 9, 2019 $.35 A COPY by Matt Conti News Briefs by Sal Giarratani (Photos by Matt Conti, NorthEndWaterfront.com) Ban Weapons of War The New York Post this past Monday ran an editorial The 105th St. Agrippina’s the traditional “Tug of War” (the Agatonica. The commoners against the sale of AR-I5 semi-automatics on Page 1. I Feast was August 1st through back half won, 2 out of 3) and were amazed by the lightweight was really upset to see two mass shooters KILL 21 inno- August 4th, starting on Thursday the “Dance of 20 Men” to cheers fragranced body protected by cent folks inside 13 hours’ time, fi rst at a Walmart in evening on Hanover Street and from the grateful crowd. angels and shielded by clouds. El Paso, Texas, then another shooting in Dayton, Ohio. ending with a 10-hour Grand Saint Agrippina Di Mineo In the North End, it’s 20 men The fi rst shooter was 21 years old, and the Dayton Procession on Sunday through was a beautiful blond princess that coordinate in a complex shooter was 24 years old. What is happening in this the North End streets. On who was unmercifully tor- rhythm to keep the extremely nation with this constant surge of mass shooters? Is Saturday night, the Montel tured to death by the Emperor heavy statue in the air. Read there really this much sickness, hate and evil out there. sang his famous “This Is How Valerian in 256 AD. After her more about the benefi t society, Right now we have Congress totally at a standstill We Do It” hit, among others death, her body was taken from feast and the history of Saint over it all with conservatives and liberals mostly taking to a large crowd. The Sunday Rome to Mineo, Sicily, by three Agrippina Di Mineo at www. extreme positions on the Second Amendment. I support Grand Procession ended with holy women; Bassa, Paula and saintagrippinaboston.com. the right to bear arms but our government has a right To view additonal photos go to NorthEndWaterfront.com to put some controls on this right. I was shocked to hear that in response to 29 killed (Continued on Page 6) at two locations, Walmart has just raised the age to purchase an AR-15 from 18 years old to 21 years old. HELLO, the El Paso killer was 21 years old. Central Artery Parcel 2 I agree with the NY Post, it is time to ban the sale of semi-automatics (AR-15 type weapons) to civilians. How many more innocents will die at the hands of Park Design Process Kickoff these sick and evil killers before Congress and the The Boston Planning & & Development Agency will be #GreenwayP2. For more infor- White House step up to the plate? By the way, I think Development Agency (BPDA), leading an eight-month design mation about Parcel 2 please America should also bar the sale of ammo for these in partnership with the process that will culminate in visit http://www.bostonplans. powerful weapons, too. Massachusetts Department the construction of a new park org/planning/planning-initia- GOP: Take Out the Clowns of Transportation and the at Parcel 2. Upon completion, tives/central-artery-parcel- It appears the Republican Party will not stand by Greenway Conservancy, it will be the northernmost 2-park-design. idly while the Progressive Democrat followers of U.S. is excited to announce the terminus to the Rose Kennedy Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez try to paint them into a kick-off of the Central Artery Greenway park network. PARCEL 2 corner using their anti-racism chants. Parcel 2 Park Design Process. You are invited to learn more KICKOFF MEETING The GOP is coming out with TV ads comparing mem- Parcel 2 is a 5,000 square-foot about the design process, share Wednesday, August 14, bers of THE SQUAD as dangerous clowns showing the vacant lot between the Bul- your ideas, and discover how 2019 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. faces of her fi rebrands with their faces superimposed fi nch Triangle and the North you can participate in shaping at the Courtyard by Marriott End and bordered by North the park design at our kickoff Boston Downtown/North (Continued on Page 10) Washington Street, Anthony meeting. You can also tweet Station, Floor 4, Hanover “Rip” Valenti Way, and Beverly your ideas to the BPDA (@bos- Room 107 Beverly Street, Street. The The Boston Planning tonplans) using the hashtag Boston, MA, 02114 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, AUGUST 9, 2019 Saint Kilian by Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari Kilian was born to noble par- ents in approximately the year 640 in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland. Some records state that he served as a monk in the cel- ebrated monastery at Hy, where he might have been abbot. Hy VERGIL is the early name for what was ried on a dialogue between two later known as Iona. He began shepherds. his education in Rosscarbery, The fourth of his ten Eclogues County Cork and completed tells of the birth of a child and it in Tuosist near Kenmare in an ensuing period of peace and County Kerry. Kilian traveled prosperity. This was regarded, throughout Ireland. He then of course, as a prophecy of the traveled with eleven compan- coming of Christ. He also wrote ions to Gaul and then to Würz- “The Georgics” or “Georgica.” An burg, Germany whose people he agricultural poem in four books, found to be pagan, and whom on the life and occupation of he resolved to convert. He made farmers. It also glorifi ed country a pilgrimage to Rome in 686 scripture by being married to life and told of the beauties of where he received papal author- his brother’s widow, Geilana. Italy. The Georgica is said to ity for his mission; Pope Conon When Geilana, whom Kilian had have exhibited a high artistic ordained him as a missionary failed to convert to Christianity, perfection in Latin poetry and is bishop. Kilian then returned heard of Kilian’s words against claimed to be the literary work to Würzburg in 687 with Saint her marriage, she became en- which confi rmed his position as Colman and Saint Totnan. With raged. In the absence of the the foremost poet of that era. them, he evangelized East Fran- duke, she had her soldiers sent The last great work of Vergil conia and East Thuringia, areas to the main square of Würzburg, was of course his “Aenid,” an in modern Bavaria, converting where Kilian and his colleagues Charles Franois Jalabert - Horace, Vergil, and Varius at the epic poem in 12 books which Duke Gozbert with a large part were preaching, and had him house of Maecenas were composed between 29 of his subjects to Christianity. beheaded. The year is thought and 19 BC. Being mythologi- Kilian told the Duke that to be 689. Feast Day of Saint During the past few weeks, inscriptions clearly spell out cal in nature it was modeled he was in violation of sacred Kilian is July 8th. we have been discussing Roman Vergilius and never Virgilius. after the Homeric poems, and scholars who were prominent He was educated at Cremona, told of the adventures of the during the Ciceronian portion Mediolanum (Milan), and hero “Aeneas” after the fall of of the Golden Age. These greats Neapolis (Naples), and from his Troy. The theme of the Aenid Happy 100th Birthday to were Lucretius, Cicero, Sallust, writings there are no doubt that is founded upon an old Roman Julius Caesar, and Varro. This he received an excellent edu- tradition that Aeneas and his Clara (Itri) Marcantonio week we pass into the sec- cation. His health was always Trojan warriors settled in Italy ond half of the Golden Age or quite delicate and consequently and founded Rome. This poem Augustan Period. This is the he never sought to increase his became the great national epic age which boasts of the famous popularity through a military of the Roman people. Its objec- poets Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, career. tive was to praise the glories of the popular historian Titus Some of his early unimport- Rome, and to instill a patriotic Livy, and of course, Vitruvius, ant work included short poems feeling along with a religious the author of a volume called about past national heroes, sentiment for the gods and “The Ten Books of Architecture.” instructional poems, and a heroes of their ancestors. Our scholarly Roman for poem called “Cataleptic,” which The work of Vergil, the great today is Publius Vergilius Maro, provided facts about his life national poet of ancient Rome, the great national poet, and also that were not otherwise avail- is said to have infl uenced Dante the most famous of all Roman able. Sometime around 37 Alighieri, Chaucer, Spenser, August 12, 2019 poets. He was born in 70 BC BC Vergil completed his fi rst Milton, and Tennyson, to name in a village in Cisalpine Gaul. work of major importance. a few. With Much Love From Your There is no doubt about the These were ten pastoral poems NEXT ISSUE: spelling of his name since called “Eclogues” which car- Horace Nephews Bob and Ronald and their Wives Jody and Maria Red Sox Invite North End Students to Spend Their Summer FREE Fun Fridays! At Fenway Park Through Student 9’s Program Free Fun Fridays offer visitors no-cost admission to many of the most treasured Student Ticket Program Offers Young Fans the Opportunity to Attend cultural venues in Massachusetts.