book chapter
Celebration, conflict & reconciliation at Saint Anthony's
melting pot and beyond: Italian Americans in the year 2000: proceedings of the XVIII Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association held at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, November 7-9, 1985 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1987 • Pages: 249-258
By: Caro, Edythe Quinn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This the story of the rise and fall of an ethnic parish. It reveals the importance of the FESTA, the annual part-secular, part-sacred celebration surrounding a saint's birthday, in the makeup of Italian-American identity and community. It also discloses the conflict between Italian and Irish Catholics over control of church ritual. Silver Lake is a hill community north of New York City, which in the 1920s was three-quarters Italian-American. In 1922 the New York Archdiocese established a mission church in the town in response to the evangelical success of the local Baptist chapel. The Mission offered the sermon, gospel, and announcements in Italian and also began to celebrate the feast day of Saint Anthony with a festa, which became more elaborate over time. Unfortunately in 1952 the Archdiocese assigned to the Mission a Catholic Irish priest who immediately ceased the Italian liturgy and festival. This led to dissent in the community and in the 1970s the Mission revived a more modest festival and an Italian-language mass.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1922-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Silver Lake, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edythe Quinn Caro
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87022170
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans