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09/27/2011 3:08 pm

Mass and Reception for the Italian Community with Archbishop Conti

Il 2 novembre alle 19, presso la restaurata cattedrale di st. Andrew in Glasgow, si terrà l’annuale messa da requiem, nella ricorrenza del giorno dei defunti ed il ricevimento per la comunità italiana in Scozia. La messa sarà celebrata dsll’arcivescovo della Diocesi di Glasgow, mons. Mario Conti...

07/01/2011 5:11 pm

Per non dimenticare l’Arandora Star

Si è svolto questo pomeriggio a Barga, prima con un ricordo in Piazza Mons. Piero Giannini e poi con una santa messa di suffragio presso la chiesa del sacro Cuore, la commemorazione della tragedia dell’Arandora Star (2 luglio 1940), dove persero la vita centinaia di prigionieri italo-britannici che...

06/29/2011 2:04 pm

Per l’anniversario dell’Arandora Star

L’Amministrazione Comunale ha partecipato lo scorso mese di maggio all’inaugurazione degli Italian Cloister Garden di Glasgow, il giardino monumentale voluto dall’Arcidiocesi di Glasgow, ed in particolare dal suo vescovo Mario Conti, per celebrare il contributo degli italo-scozzesi alla terra che...

05/17/2011 2:13 am

Italian Cloister Garden opens in Glasgow, Scotland

A memorial garden featuring the largest monument dedicated to victims who died aboard a cruise liner which sunk in 1940 was officially opened this afternoon in Glasgow, Scotland First Minister Alex Salmond joined the Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti to open the Italian Cloister Garden next to St...

07/02/2008 7:11 pm

Arandora Star remembered 68 years after the event

In early June 1940, immediately Italy entered the Second World War, all Italian male civilians between the ages of 18 and 70 years living in the UK were arrested by the police and military to be interned under instructions of the War Cabinet. Following a decision to transport a number of internees to...

06/17/2008 12:17 am

Italian Cloister Garden: a monument dedicated to the Italians in Scotland

It was a great joy to have been at the dinner venue organised by the Caproni family at â€œLa Terrazzaâ€ restaurant in Albiano (Barga) in the presence of the Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti and I was brought to tears, as I think many others there, when he spoke about his project to build...

05/29/2008 1:20 pm

Italian Cloister Garden

The most significant monument to the Italian community ever to be considered in Scotland is now imminent. The idea is to build an Italian Cloister Garden next to St Andrew’s Cathedral in Clyde Street, Glasgow. The planned garden will be a real “punto di ritrovo” for all Italians and...