In 2005, descendants of Vincenzo Di Giorgio spent a week in Sicily learning more about their ancestral homeland
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Di Giorgio
Murialdo’s Prayer
Father Teodoro Lucente, director of the Artigianelli Institute (originally the Di Giorgio orphanage), presented all Homeland Tour members with a print of this poem in Italian. This prayer has become the Institute’s credo. Learn a lesson from the past, But live in your time, listen and understand the voices of the universe, of the earth,…
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Di Giorgio
A portal to Di Giorgio–related information and resources on this site.
View Di Giorgio »Rosario Di Giorgio’s Discharge Papers
Typically, the eldest son was exempt from military duty and the second oldest was expected to serve. Rosario's elder brother Joseph was already running the family fruit business in the U.S., so Rosario enlisted in his stead. After earning a medal in the "African Campaign," Rosario Di Giorgio was honorably discharged in 1897.
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CeCe dug up an interesting article from 2006 in Baltimore’s City Paper (no longer available online). Here she recounts the bizarre tale of how Joseph Di Giorgio escaped death at the hands of his banana-importing rivals.
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My paternal grandmother, always known to me as Grandma DiGi. I didn’t know until I was an adult that her mother Carmelina was actually the first Grandma DiGi. Then again, she didn’t know until age 50 that her official first name was Mafalda. Grandma DiGi passed away in 2006 at age 90. When asked what…
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Personifying the American Dream, Joseph Di Giorgio came to the U.S. at age 14 with little more than his family’s hopes to open new markets for their Sicilian lemons. He founded a fruit exchange in Baltimore with borrowed money and was a director of the Maryland National Bank by age 21. After buying thousands of…
View Joseph Di Giorgio »Italian Heritage Dante Association Presents Joseph A. Di Giorgio with the Columbian Award
Program from the 1975 Oct 17 presentation of the Columbian Award to Joseph A. Di Giorgio.
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