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• The Pantamerone: Or, The Story of Stories by Giambattista Basile

Publisher: Legare Street Press
Publication Date: July 18, 2023
Hardcover: $33.95
Language: English
Pages: 266

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• The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

Publisher: Alpha Edition
Publication Date: September 22, 2023
Paperback: $15.82
Language: English
Pages: 246

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A Pilgrimage to Rome

A friend on pilgrimage to Rome sent us a few pictures of the churches she visited so far in the Eternal City.

Santa Maria Scala Coeli

Transito di Santa Caterina da Siena

Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva

San Paolo alle Tre Fontane

Santa Maria Maggiore

Feast of San Girolamo

St. Jerome in his study removing a thorn from the lion’s paw

September 30th is the Feast of San Girolamo (Saint Jerome), Doctor of the Church. A fourth century scholar and historian from the Roman province of Dalmatia, he is best known for his translation of the Holy Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) from the original Hebrew and Greek Septuagint. Protector of Cittanova in Reggio Calabria, San Girolamo is also the patron saint of archeologists, translators, scholars, librarians and students. In celebration, we're posting a Prayer to St. Jerome. The accompanying photo of St. Jerome removing a thorn from the lion’s paw (c. 1440-70) by Early Neapolitan Renaissance painter Niccolò Antonio Colantonio is on view at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.

Prayer to St. Jerome

Master of unworldliness and founder of monasteries, you had a deep love for God's inspired Word and were a most careful translator of the Sacred Scriptures. Your single-mindedness in seeking God's glory is a perfect model for all exegetes. Inspire them with respect for the sacred text as well as for Tradition and the Church's Magisterium. Help them to impart to all the true meaning of the Word of God. Amen.

Feast of Sant’Amato di Nusco

Sant'Amato Vescovo, ora pro nobis

September 30th is the Feast of Sant’Amato, first Bishop of Nusco, Avellino. Invoked against earthquakes and other natural disasters, many healing miracles have been attributed to the great saint. 

In celebration, we're posting a prayer in Italian to Sant’Amato, courtesy of the Società Sant’Amato di Nusco of Long Island City, New York. The accompanying photo was taken at the society clubhouse in 2014. Evviva Sant'Amato Vescovo!

Orazione a Santo Amato

O glorioso Santo Amato, che in tempi di tenebre splendesti di sanità nella tua patria e la sollevasti a nuovi costumi e nuova vita civile, deh! stendi su tutti i tuoi devoti l'opera tua benefica.

Tu avvisasti nel tuo popolo il fervore della fede e della pietà cristiana, Tu fosti sollievo negli affanni, scampo nei pericoli, e Tu conserva ognora all'ombra tua il popolo del tuo acquisto e quanti invocano il tuo nome benedetto.

O padre e Pastore della tua Nusco spira nei cuori la carità, che ti accese verso il tuo gregge, sicché, amandoci in terra, possiamo esser insieme con Te cittadini in cielo.

Prayer for the Glorification of Father Alfred Pampalon, Patron of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts

Venerable Alfred Pampalon, ora pro nobis

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O Jesus, in Your power and goodness, You have raised Father Alfred Pampalon to such admirable virtue, grant that, through his intercession, we may imitate him in his love for You and for Your Immaculate Mother, Mary.

Bestow upon us, O Jesus, the favors we seek through his intervention, so that You may be glorified in Your servant and that Your Church may soon raise him to the ranks of Her Blessed and of Her Saints. Amen.

Please report obtained favors to:

Cause of Father Alfred Pampalon

Secretariat of the Shrine

Saint Anne de Beaupre (Quebec)

Canada GOA 3CO

Unquantifiable and Irrelevant Data

Yesterday we reached over 2,000,000 visitors and would like to thank all fifteen or twenty of our regular readers who keep coming back.

I believe in what we are doing and stand by our project, but I have a sneaking suspicion the numbers are being manipulated by bots or referrer spam. We are way too “niche” to be this “popular.” Plus, I know I’m not that good of a writer.

On the other hand, people do write us encouraging emails and strangers recognize me at certain events more often than I’m comfortable with. So I guess anything is possible.

I don’t care enough about content analytics to study them, after all, this is not a money-making venture or a popularity contest. Unwilling to pander, we wouldn’t change a thing if we had ten or ten thousand readers.

Whatever the real numbers, we are truly grateful to everyone who believes in our mission and supports us. Il Regno is a labor of love and I feel blessed to be a part of it. Thanks and God bless you all.

~ Giovanni di Napoli, September 28, Feast of San Venceslao

Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo (Part 6)

As our confratello travels through the Old Kingdom, he continues to send us pictures of old haunts and newly discovered treasures from our ancestral homeland. The latest batch just arrived from the Sanctuary of Monte Sant’Angelo on Mount Gargano in Foggia, Apulia.

See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5