[TI] Antonina LoBello/Agostino LoBello

[Jim McCarthy]

I do so look forward to seeing the results on the Termini Website that I'll 
keep paying Laura, a distant relative of my wife, until I can add them to my 
file.  Jim McCarthy, Somerville, MA., researching Mercurio, Costa, Schiavo, 
Palmisano from Termini.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fr. Anthony Delisi" <franthony at trappist.net>
To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TI] Antonina LoBello/Agostino LoBello


> Dear Termini Family,
>
> Yesterday I came back from a two day visit to Italy and Spain.  The main
> purpose of the trip was the international gathering of Lay Cistercians 
> from
> around the world at the 12th century Abbey of Huerta located about two 
> hour
> north-east of Madrid.
>
> On May 26th our group visited the cave in which Saint Benedict lived for
> three years located at Subiaco, Italy.  On the following day we went by
> train to visit the Abbey of Monte Casino.
> On the 28th was the Papal audience of Pope Benedict XVI.  After the
> audience we waited around for about half an hour and then the Pope was
> driven right past us in the pope-mobile.
>
> That evening two friends. Mr. & Mrs. Haven Sweet & Rocky Thomas, escorted 
> me
> to Sicily.  We missed the flight because of a change of gates, but were 
> able
> to catch another flight about an hour later which brought us into Palermo
> after dark.   Mario Galioto and his son, Salvatore, were there to greet 
> us.
> Some of you know Mario from your visit to Termini a few years ago.
> Rocky and Haven stayed at the Gabb..... Hotel and were more than satisfied
> with the accommodations.
>
> The follow morning we visited the most beautiful Cathedral in the world
> located at Cefalu.  That afternoon Mario gave us the grand tour of 
> Termini,
> including his olive grove.
>
> That evening at 5 PM. Mario took us to the cathedral to meet Msgr.
> Francisco. There were two men of the parish with PhDs who escorted us to 
> the
> archives.  Since Mario and a friend had recently finished making photo
> copies of Vol. II, I had to make a quick decision as to what to make 
> copies
> of.  Since we already have the city records that go back to 1820, my
> decision was to go to work on the baptismal records starting from 1820 and
> going back.  The two custodians of the archives pulled the books from the
> shelves while Haven and I, with two cameras began to make copies of the
> records.  They gave us only two hours to do our task.
> We were able to make copy the Baptismal records from 1820 back to 1776. 
> It
> will be up to others to finish up the work.  The books between 1820 to 
> about
> 1790 had both the records of births and deaths, but we concentrated only 
> on
> the births for now.  As for the quality of the photos, I am sure that some
> of them are blurred, but the index for each volume is the most important.
> The records are in alphabetical order according to the baptismal first 
> name
> and then the family name follows.   It will be our work to put the lists 
> in
> alphabetical order according to the family name.  While Haven finished up
> the final volume, I took photos of the entire collection contained in a
> metal case with sliding doors about 6' by 5'.  It will take some time to
> process this first step and then to get it into the Termini site.
>
> The following day we visited the cemetery and then to the ancient bridge 
> and
> up to the site of the olive grove once owned by my grandfather.  This 
> gives
> one a beautiful view of Termini.
> That afternoon Mario, and his wife Pina, drove us to see the Cathedral of
> Monreale, located on a mountain overlooking Palermo. By 7:30 PM we were 
> once
> again in the air returning to Rome and then on to Spain.
>
> This was a quick visit, but I feel a very fruitful one.  Thanks be to God.
>
> PAX. fr. Anthony Delisi
>
>
>
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