[TI] Antonina LoBello/Agostino LoBello

[jrbkcastro at att.net]

   Dear Fr. DeLisi,

Thanks very much for you and your friends effort in this regard. The Baptismal records should be a great help......I'm wondering tho if you need to make the effort to list them by last name...it might not be that hard to search by first name??
and might save you a lot of work......also glad you saw Cefalu and its wonderful
old church!!

Joe Castro 
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Fr. Anthony Delisi" <franthony at trappist.net>
>
> 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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