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Columbus, Our Lady of Loreto and the Ironies of Italian American History
La Voce di New York
(2017)
Abstract
Ironically Columbus Day began as an attempt to reconcile the new immigrants with Americans and even Native Americans. A final irony: as the Italian American community gathers to celebrate and march past Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave, the beautiful neo-Renaissance Our Lady of Loreto church in Brooklyn, built by Italian emigrants in 1906 in their “spare” time, is being torn down.
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Publication Date
2017
Citation Information
William J. Connell and Stanislao Pugliese. "Columbus, Our Lady of Loreto and the Ironies of Italian American History" La Voce di New York (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/william-connell/19/