Our Founder, Father Gerald, learning a little Italian in 1961.

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Our Founder, Father Gerald, learning a little Italian in 1961.

Our Founder, Father Gerald, learning a little Italian in 1961.

We aren’t sure just how much Italian our Founder learned in amid travels and work in Rome but the archives show us a moment of an Italian lesson. We also don’t know how his Boston accent came through in italiano. But we are confident, given his absolute love and loyalty to the Church, that he enjoyed the Eternal City.