Church of Santa Maria Addolorata (Chicago, IL) Records (CMS 055)
November 2, 2016
CMS 055 documents, via correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and published ephemera, activities at Santa Maria Addolorata, a Roman Catholic parish founded for Italian immigrants in Chicago, Illinois. The material covers the periods 1904-1953 with an emphasis on 1904-1913, when Father Giacomo Gambera, a member of a community of male religious now called the Society of Saint Charles-Scalabrinians, came to Addolorata and began corresponding with this friend and provincial superior, Father Antonio Demo.