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Pietro Bandini (March 31, 1852 – January 2, 1917) was an Italian Catholic priest and missionary to the United States who was prominent in the Italian American community.
Oct 3, 2023 · Father Pietro Bandini, a Roman Catholic priest, is most widely remembered in Arkansas for the 1898 founding of Tontitown (Washington County), located in the northwestern corner of the state, which he named after Henry de Tonti, an Italian explorer who established, with René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European settlement in ...
Dec 3, 2016 · The surge of peasant Italians often fell prey to exploitation. In 1890, Father Pietro Bandini left Italy and founded the St. Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants in Manhattan. The Society’s original building still stands at 113 Waverly Place.
Pietro Bandini, founder of the successful Italian colony of Tontitown (Washington County); 1898. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville.
May 27, 2017 · Pietro Bandini grew up in Forli, joined the Jesuits and was sent as a missionary to Montana’s Native Americans. Later he moved to New York to minister to put-upon Italians. For those at ...
Oct 24, 2018 · On Wednesday October 24th, 2018. Scalabrini International Migration Network and the Scalabrini Saint Charles Borromeo Province announce the release of Dr. Edward C. Stibili’s Pietro Bandini: Missionary, Social Worker, and Colonizer, 1852-1917, on the centenary of his death.
Those two communities are connected through the one man who tried to assimilate them both into American culture: Father Pietro Bandini. Director | Lisa Di Vita. Director of Photography | Chuck Bowman. Editor | Dana Shockley. Assistant Producer | Patricia Relph, Ph.D. Website | PietroBandiniandthePeople.com.
