St. Bartholomew's Day Will Be Observed by the Benevolent Italian Society Bearing His Name
Submitted by Larie Tedesco
Daily Picayune August 24, 1899


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The feast of San Bartolomeo, patron saint of Italian religious
societies, on August 24, is always commemorated with church services
and a procession by the well-known Italian association “La
Congregazlone e Fratellanza Italiana di San Bartolomeo Apostolo” of
this city.  This society, pursuant to annual custom will assemble
this morning and will attend high mass.

San Bartolomeo’s eve was duly observed last evening.  The San
Bartolomeo Society assisted at vesper service in St. John the Baptist
church, on Dryades Street, near Calliope.  Very Rev. John M. Laval,
vicar general, and pastor of St. John’s Church, officiated, and he
was assisted by Fathers LaRosa and Baley.  At the conclusion of the
ceremonies, the society adjourned to its headquarters, on Dryades and
Clio streets, and had a social meeting, with speeches, fireworks, and
refreshments.  Officers and members will assemble this morning at 9
o’clock at the hall, and thence will go to St. John the Baptist
church to attend solemn high mass and listen to a panegyric of the
saint, which will be delivered by Father LaRosa.

The officers of the San Bartolomeo Society are:  President, Felice
Bertucci; vice president, S. Bertucci; recording secretary, Antonio
Greco; financial secretary, John Bazile; treasurer, C. Mazziola;
grand marshal, Jos. Gruffia.

The society was organized in 1878, and incorporated in 1879.  It has
relieved considerable disease among the Italians in this city, and
its objects include the broadest and most Christian dispensation of
charity and benevolence.