St Francis Club

St Francis Club:

Our Calabrian Heritage

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Patron Saint of Calabria
   Annual Feast of  "Saint Francis Di Paolo"
    [IMAGE]   Photos by Catherine Chippari
   Held in - Frankfort N.Y.  on June 15th 1999

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          Current Shrine at Saint Francis Park.
           Frankfort NY.
       Saint Francis di Paolo
        Patron saint of Calabria



           Italian Bandstarts the celebration.
            with old time music.
       The Original ChapelBuilt late
       1920s is still kept, well preserved..

New Shrine... Pictured (L to R) Frank Grates (Grizzuti)
John Favat, Joe Dunadee, George Corrado, Vincenzo
Accatato, Joe Chippari, Dominick Lilli, Frank Cattat
and Fred Vivacqua.

Saint Francis Club...
of Frankfort NY. The club was chartered in1929 and was originally founded and composed, exclusively of Calabrian members, from Oriolo Cs...
(Photo around. 1950)

US Army-1917..
Young men, prepare to ship out from Herkimer NY, to Ft Dix, NJ. Most are Italian born, of either Sicilian, or Calabrian origins. most spoke very little if any English.I Cant explain WHY!... there an Italian flag...flying in the background?
Photo 1917

Join The Army...
Quite often, young poorley educated
Italian men would join the army as a
means of obtaining US citizenship.

The Grizzuti Brothers (Grates)...
from "Oriolo Calabria"
(top L-R) Unknown.Giorgio (uniform)
Fracesco (Frank), seated Giuseppi
(Joe) and Pasquale.
Photo around 1917.

Brother Against Brother

World War..
Found Italy, allied
with Germany. This
In many cases, put
brothers on opposite
sides. A very sad state
of affairs for a people
who are so triditionaly
Family oriented.
Years later, this would
be repeated with
World War 2.

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       Brother Francisco Lilli of the
         Italian Army.

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