Celebrating Our Seventh Anniversary

Highlights include (top) becoming a board member of the St. Rocco Society of Potenza in NYC; meeting the Royal Family of the Two Sicilies during the Investiture Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral; venerating the first class relic of St. George at Holy Innocents Church in NYC; (bottom) translating the statue and first class relic of San Vincenzo Martire di Craco to Most Precious Blood Church in Little Italy, NYC; organizing our annual commemoration of the Battle of Bitonto; and carrying the statue of San Gennaro on his Feast Day in Little Italy, NYC 

Seven years ago today we launched our group blog, a collaborative effort between like-minded individuals passionate about the history, heritage, and culture of southern Italy and her diaspora communities. Warmly received, our readership continues to increase, as does our ambition to grow and improve. Over these years I’ve learned a lot, met so many interesting people (e.g. the Royal Family of the Two Sicilies), and made several new friends along the way. The experience has been very rewarding, much better than I could have ever imagined! Thank you to everyone who had a hand in this grand adventure of ours.

Name Change

To our readers who have inquired about the recent changes to our website, I would like to take this opportunity to assure you that our mission has stayed the same. We remain an information and opinion blog devoted to our ethnos. The reasons for the change were simple. The old name caused some confusion and unintentionally suggested we were affiliated with the Grécistes in France, which we are not. We also felt the new name was a little more apropos in respect of our target audience. As sticklers for accuracy have repeatedly told me, not all southern Italians are descended from Magna Greacia, but all are descended from il Regno. Obviously, no disrespect was meant to our Greek and Grécistes friends, who remain an important and valued source of inspiration to us and our cause.

Technical difficulties

Unfortunately, it seems after seven years I’m still not as web savvy as I would like to be. An unforeseen downside to changing names meant all our internal links were broken due to the new URL. We are painstakingly working on fixing this problem, but it’s taking longer than expected. We appreciate your patience during this process and apologize for any inconvenience.

Pray Pal

On a different note, we are now accepting donations in the form of prayers. If you like what we do and want us to continue doing it, please say a prayer for us. Your generosity and thoughtfulness are greatly appreciated.

Have a Blessed Holy Week and joyous Easter. Buona Pasqua!