Antonio Demo
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Ordination | July 20, 1896 |
Personal details | |
Born | Lazzaretto di Bassano, Veneto, Italy | April 23, 1870
Died | January 2, 1936 New York City, United States | (aged 65)
Denomination | Catholic |
Antonio Demo
Career
Demo studied at seminaries in Italy and entered the
He initially did missionary work for two years in the parish of the Sacred Heart in Boston, which served a congregation of Italian immigrants mostly from
Demo exercised his apostolate among the Italian immigrants, serving until 1923 also as the director of the St. Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants, an organization that had been specifically formed in 1891 by Bandini to assist newly arrived immigrants and that he helped to strengthen.
In 1923 Demo learned that the church would have to be demolished to allow extension of the
In 1935, Demo became Pompeii's pastor emeritus and superintendent of its parochial school. He died in 1936 in Greenwich Village in New York City, and thousands of parishioners and friends, including Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, paid their respects.[5]
Legacy
In 1941, the intersection of Bleecker Street and Sixth Avenue was named Father Demo Square.[6] In 2009, after a renovation, Father Demo Square was honored with a Village Award[7] by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
References
Notes
- ^ "Our Lady of Pompei and Father Demo's Photographs". Researching Greenwich Village History. October 1, 2013. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
- ^ a b c Nicholas Joseph Falco, "Antonio Demo."
- ^ a b "P. ANTONIO DEMO". www.scalabrini.org. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ^ "Father Demo Square Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved Jun 3, 2019.
- ^ Brown, Mary Elizabeth (October 2007). Fierro, Rafaele (ed.). The Italians of the South Village (PDF). New York, New York: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. p. 47. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
- ^ Father Demo Square – Historical Sign at www.nycgovparks.org
- ^ "Past Village Award Winners". GVSHP.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
Bibliography
- Brown, Mary Elizabeth. "Italian Immigrant Catholic Clergy and an Exception to the Rule: The Revered Antonio Demo, Our Lady of Pompeii, Greenwich Village, 1899-1933." In Church History 62.1 (March 1993): 41–59.
- Falco, Nicholas Joseph. "Antonio Demo." In The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia, ed. Salvatore J. LaGumina (New York: Garland, 2000), 177–78.